No I dont think you can do that

What does stretches out mean?

Is it just a formatting thing?  Maybe you can change the font (or font size) and
be back to normal.

Does that mean that some of the cells in the MSWord table have newlines in them
and when they get copied to excel, those individual lines within the cell get
pasted into their own cells?

Saved from a previous post:

If your cells in your word table contain paragraph mark or linebreak characters,
then excel will bring them over as separate cells.

One way around it is to convert those paragraph marks & linebreaks to unique
characters, then copy|paste and then convert them back to linefeeds.

I like this technique (inside a copy of the word file):
Select your table.
Edit|replace|Special (show More if required)
Find what: (paragraph mark under Special button)
replace with:  $$$$$     (if $$$$$ doesn't appear in the table)
replace all

Same thing with Manual Line break (from under Special).

Now copy the table into Excel.

Edit|Replace
Replace what: $$$$$
Replace with: hit and hold the alt and type 0010 from the number pad--not above
QWERTY.

It may look like you haven't done anything, but if you did it right, you
replaced $$$$$ with alt-enter.
Replace all.

Don't forget to close the word document without saving (or hit undo as many
times as necessary).