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

[Jon Marett]

On Feb 28, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> I've run into a problem, and I'm not sure which of multiple factors  
> may be responsible.
>
> I bought a new Core Duo iMac.  Around the same time, I know that my  
> credit card company  (Chase) changed their website access page.
>
> 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.
>
> I seem to remember a discussion about something like this  
> before...any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Michael

I support 'the dark side' at work and recently discovered that right- 
clicking on any tabular data in IE 6 (in WinXP sp2) gives a menu  
option to 'Export to MS Excel 2003'. Does this feature exist in the  
latest Mac version of Office?

jon

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