G'day all -
I often need to copy data from a web page and paste it into a spreadsheet.
I use Lotus 123 Release 9.8 and K-Meleon 1.5.4 in W2K Pro SP4 Rollup 1 -- but I suspect this problem will happen with any spreadsheet.
I highlight the text (URLs are NOT involved!!!!), then Ctrl-C, then Ctrl-V into 123. This produces an alert: "1-2-3 did not find any tabular data in this HTML file." The only way I can get past this is to right-click and select "Paste Special" which gives me the option of "HTML Format" or "Text" -- this is an un-intuitive time-consuming work-around which is unsatisfactory.
Normally I would be selecting a list of numeric data, but the misbehaviour happens equally badly with simple text strings, leading me to believe that K-M interprets the "copy" command to include HTML formatting.
Is this a bug in K-M, or a design feature?
Gordon.
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