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Pasting data into tables: Does it work in CS5 and CS5.5?

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    • August 1, 2011 at 12:38 pm #60186
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
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      In the Show Notes for podcast 153, where we talked about tables, F vd Geest commented:

      It may be that I remember it wrong, but I thought that if you have date on the clipboard that has more data in it then a table had rows/columns, and you selected one cell (with ESC) and pasted, InDesign would create new rows and columns needed to accommodate all data.

      Now, In CS5 and CS5.5 thist does not work.
      Did it work in CS3/4 or do I simply remember this wrong…?

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      To add to that: when I copied data (from either tables in InDesign itself or from another application) and try to paste that into a table that holds not enough rows and columns (again, first cell selected, easy to do with ESC) the Paste command under Edit is greyed out. As soon as I add rows the command gets visible again when there are enough cells to hold the data on the pasteboard in CS5.5. This is different from what I’m used to. See the screen movie here (used is a Dutch version of InDesign):
      https://tiny.cc/n3y5a

    • August 1, 2011 at 12:39 pm #60187
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
      Member

      And I said:

      I’m not having that problem here. Here’s a silent movie:
      https://j.mp/pPtnLn

      Maybe it’s the version? I’m on 7.5.0 on a Mac running Snow Leopard.

      Any other people interested in testing this out? Thanks

      AM

    • August 1, 2011 at 2:30 pm #60190
      Anonymous
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      It definitely works. It's always worked :)

      Just that if you have merged cells it won't work. Or if you have data with tabs that don't match the table cells.

      I always unmerge any cells before pasting the text in there. I find using the the Table Add and Delete Rows/columns better than merging cells. If you merge cells then pasting into cells might not work as expected.As David pointed out way back in CS2 or CS3 I think that merging cells is a faux pas.

    • August 2, 2011 at 6:20 am #60195
      Anonymous
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      Oke, the official answer is:
      “The current copy/paste behavior of table cells is as designed and it’s also documented in the ID help where in it says “there should be sufficient number of row/column in the table in which you want to paste the copied content.”
      Got this from the Adobe engineers, and indeed the help files states this clearly

      So it ONLY works with plain text copy/paste, there it will add rows and columns, NOT if the data on the clipboard is copied from InDesign tables or Excel tables, there it will not work (and, it seems has never worked! One of those ‘memory playing tricks with me’). It depends how the data copied gets on the clipboard if it works or not

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