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    • burnout426
      burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

      @sclears said in Copy from Excel to Opera:

      Did what you said, not working either.

      The Inside Clipboard viewer isn't supposed to fix anything. It's supposed to show you what Excel puts in the clipboard so it can be analyzed to determine what Opera doesn't like.

      The pics help, but do you have the clp file as requested?

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      • AaronNW
        AaronNW @burnout426 last edited by

        @burnout426 Not sure if anyone's still looking at this thread, but I recently started using Opera GX and the only draw back is that excel tables are converted to pictures. I've attached a link to the clp file if that helps. (The website says I don't have enough permissions :-|)

        https://drive.google.com/file/d/11dUZ617RbIBlrEj3MkZnjipgasUP5B8-/view?usp=sharing

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        • burnout426
          burnout426 Volunteer @AaronNW last edited by burnout426

          @aaronnw Are you referring to pasting into a Gmail compose body?

          I loaded your clp file and tried pasting into a Gmail compose body with rich text formatting turned on, but I just got plain text with the cell text separated by tabs to represent the cells. I tried in Chrome and Firefox too. Same thing. As in, Gmail isn't using the Rich Text Formatting section in the clipboard when pasting.

          Now, if I load up Wordpad and paste into it, I get a table. So, I don't think there's anything wrong with the clipboard content created when you copied from Excel. It just looks like a Gmail problem.

          Are you able to get things to paste right into Gmail in Chrome?

          Edit: I tried to just paste some bold text into Gmail in Chrome and that didn't even work. I could see it get inserted as bold text for a second and then the formatting was removed even though rich text mode was on. I then disable ublock origin in Chrome and was able to paste the tab. But, it just came out as bold text separated by tabs. But, now I can't reproduce that at all. I will have to play around with it more later.

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          • burnout426
            burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

            @burnout426 It appears that Gmail needs an HTML_FORMAT section in the clipboard that has HTML markup that represents the table. If Excel doesn't generate that, pasting won't work.

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            • davidnt
              davidnt last edited by

              Hello burnout426,

              This operation Copy/Paste works well with others browsers as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

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              • burnout426
                burnout426 Volunteer @davidnt last edited by

                @davidnt said in Copy from Excel to Opera:

                Chrome

                Hmm. What version of Excel are you using?

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                • davidnt
                  davidnt last edited by

                  In the past, Excel 2007.
                  Today, Excel 2013.

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                  • burnout426
                    burnout426 Volunteer @davidnt last edited by

                    @davidnt Can you provide a clp file of your clipboard contents after copying a table in Excel like @AaronNW did above?

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                    • mvgodinho
                      mvgodinho last edited by

                      Just found this topic, as a new user to Opera. The impossibility of pasting Excel tables to Gmail is the only downside so far.

                      Although Chrome and Firefox can paste the proper table, when using Gmail in Opera I can only choose from only text without formatting and a low resolution image from the spreadsheet.

                      Has anyone found a solution for this?

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                      • burnout426
                        burnout426 Volunteer @mvgodinho last edited by

                        @mvgodinho In your case, what version of Excel?

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                        • mvgodinho
                          mvgodinho @burnout426 last edited by mvgodinho

                          @burnout426 Excel for Mac 16.65. The funny thing is that it only happens in Opera, not in Chrome.

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                          • burnout426
                            burnout426 Volunteer @mvgodinho last edited by burnout426

                            @mvgodinho After copying in Excel, maybe you can use https://langui.net/clipboard-viewer/ to see if there's an HTML_FORMAT section as mentioned in my previous comment. I'd check that out even if things work fine in Firefox and Chrome. Not on Mac myself and don't have Excel to test.

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