Reply To: Auto align tops of various length paragraphs across text boxes

stuarth64 said:

You can paste the text into a highlghted cell and each hard return in the text will trigger another row (by default, hard returns create rows and tabs create columns) so providing there are no tabs in the text it will be confined to a single column.

Well, Stuart, I've been trying to paste text into table cells and have the various paragraphs “trigger another row”, and have had no success. I've copied 5 paragraphs of text, making sure there are hard returns after each paragraph, and then selected a table cell (Cmd-slash or Escape when in cell) and pasted (Cmd-V). Everything goes into one cell. So I tried Place (Cmd-D) and selected a saved MS Word file with that data. Same result. I turned on “Show Import Options” after selecting Cmd-D and tried various things there when importing the Word file, but still no success. What might I be doing wrong?

The only way I can find to work around this is to create an Excel spreadsheet, paste the data in there (it correctly pastes into one cell per paragraph in Excel, staying in one column). Worse case scenario, I could do this, but it's cumbersome. Whenever I have to reimport the .xls file, I have to re-size the cell widths manually. Any advice would be most appreciated. Thank you.