Craig wrote: > I should be able to paste directly into any spreadsheet.
One would think it should, but long experience copy-pasting from/to LC confirms "directly" just doesn't work. An intermediary step, such as a text editor app, is always needed. Brian wrote: > If you are talking about getting an actual table, Yes, that's what I'm after. Not merely a bit of tab- and cr-delimited text, as Craig exampled, that I can copy-paste into a spreadsheet. But a bit of text that includes not only the tab/cr-delimited text but also, for example, indicators to show cell-borders and to centre text within a cell vertically/horizontally. I imagine this is somehow possible. Because, as I can do in my 3-step method, when I copy-paste from a spreasheet doc to a word doc, not only does the pasted text appear as an actual table but much of the cell formatting is retained too. However, if I copy-paste that same spreadsheet data into a text app like Notepad++, then all that appears as far as formatting is of course the tabs and crs. And Brian, as always, thank you for the code. I had a look, but I don't think it achieves my final goal, i.e., getting an actual table. It's code for cleaning up the formatting, right? I guess I should just give up... Thanks anyway. -- Nicolas Cueto On 8 February 2018 at 23:40, dunbarx via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Not sure I understand. If I make a list: > > put "cat" & tab & "dog" & tab & "eel" & return & "red" & tab & "blue" & tab > & "yellow" into myList > set the clipBoardData to myList > > I should be able to paste directly into any spreadsheet. > > There is a thread that describes an issue pasting into google docs, > depending on the version of LC, but I do not think this ever affected > Excel. > > Craig Newman > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ > Revolution-User-f278306.html > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
