I don’t think I’ve reported this UX issue before, but it’s been there for years now. It sometimes affects you when you copy data from a spreadsheet to import it as a table onto Discourse. Steps of reproduction:
- Enter some data on a spreadsheet.
- Copy and paste it to Discourse.
- Works
.
| This | works | perfectly |
|---|---|---|
| What | a | lovely |
| feature | this | is. |
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Go back to spreadsheet.
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Clear the top-left corner cell or the bottom-right corner cell.
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Copy and paste it to Discourse.
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Won’t work.
works perfectly
What a lovely
feature this is.
I ran into this once again today when I downloaded some data from a web page into Excel and then was trying to paste it to our site. There is an easy work-around: fill something into the empty square, copy-paste and clear the cell again on Discourse end.
| works | perfectly | |
|---|---|---|
| What | a | lovely |
| feature | this | is. |
I would like this fixed anyway since it still confuses me for a second every time it happens! And frankly, you can’t educate your users about such niche scenarios, but it really disrupts you when you run into it for the first time.