On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Richard Gaskin
ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
https://www.libreoffice.org/
Which is my solution. Copy from libreoffice, paste into a table, and I'm done.
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If you are absolutely sure that the clipboardData[text] has return
represented by six spaces, and tabs by 3 spaces, then:
put clipboardData[text] into tData
replacewith return in tData
repace with tab in tData
Will only take milliseconds to do what you need! How much quicker do you
-Original Message-
From: Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com
To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Wed, Jul 24, 2013 2:42 am
Subject: Re: Getting data out of Excel
If you are absolutely sure that the clipboardData[text] has return
represented by six spaces, and tabs by 3 spaces
Michael Julian wrote:
I used to be able to just paste, but nowadays (Excel 2011 Mac OSX
10.7.4) the data come in as a long string, with six spaces where
a return should be and three where a tab should be.
That seems a silly format, even by Microsoft standards (ever looked at
the bizarre
I'm trying to paste data from MS Excel into a table in my Livecode stack
without success. I suspect that either OSX or Excel have added unwelcome
complications.
I used to be able to just paste, but nowadays (Excel 2011 Mac OSX 10.7.4) the
data come in as a long string, with six spaces where a
