Like Mike, I found that the text to columns tool, using space as delimiter, will separate the entry into columns. That seems to imply that somewhere the tabs are changed to spaces. Also, pasting into a text editor does show the tabs, and copying from there preserves them when pasting into Excel, and they act normally and span columns.

I also tried fullclipboardData and rawclipboardData with no luck. There seems to be something different about in LC's implementation. I found two bugs that might be related:

http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19206
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20336

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On February 3, 2018 10:42:02 AM dunbarx via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

I have no access to Excel at the moment, but I cannot believe that the
default field delimiter could possibly have changed from tab. May just as
well change the record delimiter from return

 It would break just about everything.

Craig



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