On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:06:55AM -0400, samar j. singh wrote: ... > You may find it useful to try what I do normally.
I've added a few more details about the sequence I have to go through to get this to work. > 1. open your xls file with gnumeric or open office. > > 2. Select the requisite number of columns and rows ... and copy them (ctrl-C) > 3. Come back to your lyx document > > 4. Insert a table which has at least the selected number of rows and > columns I normally already have the table set up. > 5. Go to the cell on your lyx table where you want the top left > corner of the section to be placed. ... it is VERY important that you do NOT instigate any typing in the table when you do this. If you click in the 1st box of the table and see a red-bordered box inside, before you click the middle mouse button, this paste won't work. It will instead paste the whole excel contents into that one cell. Simply _position_ the cursor over the cell before ... > 6. Click the middle button on your mouse. > > That should be it. The experts tell me this should not work but > unfortunately for the theory, it does for me. > > samar Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
