Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 72398
Copy/Paste Tabs table FROM Notepad TO OOoWriter
Last modified: 2006-12-13 14:46:02 UTC
When copy&pasting a table, made up from tab stops to separate fields, Writer will not recognize them as field separators. MS Word does, though. E.g. plain text: cell1 [tab] cell2 [tab] cell3 [enter] cell4 [tab] cell5 [tab] cell6 [enter] will become in OOo: --------------------------- |cell1 cell2 cell3| | | |cell4 cell5 cell6| | | --------------------------- | | | | --------------------------- instead of: ------------------------- | cell1 | cell2 | cell3 | ------------------------- | cell4 | cell5 | cell6 | ------------------------- When selecting all empty cells before copying, this is what happens in the other cells: c#e#l#l#1# #c#e#l#l#2# #c#e#l#l#3#
Reassigned to ES.
I cannot reproduce it. What do you mean exactly? 1) copy/pasting plain text table doesn't become a formatted table in OOo? -> not a bug. 2) copy/pasting plain text table and transform txt->tabel doesn't recognize the tabs? -> I cannot reproduce it. Please add a sample document and a step by step description of what you do, get and expect.
Created attachment 41345 [details] source table
Created attachment 41346 [details] results in OOo Writer
Step 1: Create a plain text table such as: cell1 cell2 cell3 cell4 cell5 cell6 Note that between the entries "cell1" and "cell2" (etc) are tabs, not spaces. Please use attached source file table.txt and do not copy&paste this sample. Step 2: Create a table in OpenOffice.org Writer, 3 columns, 2 rows Step 3: select all 6 cells. Step 4: copy table FROM Notepad (or any other plain text editor) Step 5: paste the content INTO the empty table cells in OOo. In OOo this will result in ALL content in cell1 (upper left) and # in all other cells. In MSWord this would result in the word "cell1" in the upper left cell, "cell2" in the one next to it, etc, just like the plain text.
duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 24500 ***
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