Pine, I'm glad to hear VE had your back. This actually reminds me, there's a feature we never really advertised in VisualEditor where a CSV file can be dragged into the editor and a table is created from its contents.
Give it a try. And thank Ed Sanders for all things tables and Copy/Paste. - Trevor On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hear hear. > > The VE people's amazing wizardry deserves praise. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2015-04-15 11:05 GMT+03:00 Pine W <[email protected] <javascript:;>>: > > > James, > > > > I just want to say a public "thank you" for VE saving my sanity by doing > > something that I didn't know was possible. I was able to copy a table > from > > Word onto Meta using VisualEditor, and much to my surprise it mostly > > worked. I must have tried at least five other ways to get one of Cascadia > > Wikimedians' annual plan tables copied from Google Docs onto Meta, all > with > > poor results. While VisualEditor only copied part of the formatting into > > MediaWiki, the results were far better than anything else I had tried for > > the past few hours. So thank you very much for supporting this > > copy-and-paste functionality with VisualEditor. > > > > Pine > > > > *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of > > our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water > we > > must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in > > which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad > > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do > not > > know.* > > > > *—Catherine Munro* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
