[X4U] Web browser copying of formatted data/tables to spreadsheet cells?

[Stan Gould]

Michael Elliott wrote:

> I typically would log into the site, select all of my credit card  
> transactions in the table they provided, and pasted it into  
> AppleWorks without any fuss.  IF I used Internet Explorer.  Safari  
> would always paste all of the information in a single column, instead  
> of into the individual cells of the spreadsheet, which I wanted.   I  
> could always fire up Internet Explorer on my PPC iMac, and it would  
> allow me to copy the data while preserving the (TAB?) delimited  
> nature of the table.
>
> Now, when I launch Explorer under Rosetta, I can't seem to click-drag- 
> to-select and then copy the data.  I've tried several other browsers  
> (opera under Rosetta, omniweb, firefox under rosetta) but all of them  
> screw with the formatting when i paste into the spreadsheet.

Michael:

I ran into the same problem when I upgraded from 9.2 to OS X. I solved 
the problem by switching to Camino. I still have Safari, but never use 
it. Camino is a great browser, and will correctly paste financial data 
from a web table into a spreadsheet. According to their website, "Camino 
1.0 is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- and 
Intel-based Macs." For more info: http://www.caminobrowser.org/

Hope this helps.

Stan

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