Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58628
Paste text from clipboard to tables might be improved
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:39:22 UTC
My girlfriend has found a nice feature implemented in M$Office which is not present in Open Office: In M$ Office: You copy to clipboard (CTRL+C) a few lines in an e.g. notepad-written text; lines with a text like this: <begin doc.txt> 1 2 3 4 <end doc.txt> Now you switch to Word, select four table cells in a column and do CTRL+V. The lines from the text in the notepad will be copied into the cells - "1" to the first cell, "2" to the cell below the first one, etc. This does not work in OpenOffice forcing my girlfriend to use M$ Word. She tried to switch to OO since it has better equation editor compared to Word (writing commands to typeset equations seems her faster... me as well); however, she is a phycisist and needs to fill large tables in text documents with numbers computed in Matlab. Convert text to table is not possible to use as there is a need to fill various columns of an existing table. And since this nice feature is not in OO, she got back to M$ Word (with a sight).
according to http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/workflowcharts/RFE_issues_by_QA.sxd I reassign this issue to requirements and set the status to new
I do not use MS Word, so I can't comment on how it handles pasting into tables. However, I definitely agree with this feature request. It's intuitive that pasting into a table should put text that is separated by linefeeds (or tabs) into separate cells within the table. The "Special Paste..." option could allow "New line (CR) delimited multi-cell paste" and "Tab delimited multi-cell paste".