Hello,
So I’ve just upgraded from Office 2013 to Office 365.
Now when I copy cells from Excel 365 to Discourse I get an image and plain text.
When I copy from Excel 2013 I get Discourse cells in my post, I liked this but can’t get that now with 365.
Any clue how I can fix this?
Excel 365:
Some test
of cells
Excel 2013:
| some | test |
|---|---|
| of | cells |
I believe @vinothkannans has fixed similar issues in the past, the tricky thing is that office loves putting lots and lots of different formats in the clipboard and it is hard to find the right one.
Here’s my version
Demo sheet
Result of pasting
 some test of cells
|
some |test|
|—|---|
|of |cells|
You should revisit this @vinothkannans
This issue should be fixed by the open PR of @joffreyjaffeux.
It is having a markdown table and image combination 
Is it a different copy/paste issue from the above one?
That is the Windows 10 behavior. No idea what Mac behavior is.
I’ve seen this issue from Excel for months. Google Drive works just fine, so I’ve been copying from Excel to Google to Discourse when I need to paste a table. Pretty sure there’s an open bug for this, can’t find it though.
I think Windows likes putting stuff in lots of different clipboards sections associated to various types. Our JS piece needs to be able to handle that and only ever pick a single clipboard section.
We already try only to pick one format per:
But maybe somehow we are also pasting the image here as well and should have some code that says… hi… I got text here… ignore the image.
I’m running into the same issue and found this which seems to work well with Excel 365:
https://github.com/jonmagic/copy-excel-paste-markdown
Perhaps some of this code can be used within Discourse.
@vinothkannans can we make progress on this before release date please?
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9c96511ec47bf0eb450a0b7e15738d284ee3761f
The above commit should resolve this issue. Now, we won’t include uploads if the plain text option is available. @user2 can you please confirm it?
| Column A | Column B | Column C |
|---|---|---|
| A1 | B1 | C1 |
| A2 | B2 | C2 |
| A3 | B3 | C3 |
| A4 | B4 | C4 |
| A5 | B5 | C5 |
Looking good!
Testing libreoffice:
| Hollywood | Well |
|---|---|
| Screen | Fair |
| Play | Tooth |
| Marble | Staff |
| Dinosaur | Bill |
| Cat | Shot |
| Pitch | King |
| Bond | Pan |
Marvelous
Super minor and unresolvable. We are unconditionally treating first row as “title” when in fact we may just be pasting in data. A tiny be of extra cutting and pasting can fix that, so I am not seeing it as a drama
It only appears to treated as a table if it is multi column or multirow.
A single column is fine:
1
2
3
4
As is a row:
1 2 3 4
A bulleted list:
Mixed text:
Password managers:
Yes, I did it purposely when I first developed this feature. Now I just forgot the reason 
Anyway, I will check the code later.
Sorry, I’m unable to understand these reports.
I wasn’t reporting a problem. I was only showing how it also worked correctly for text and didn’t cause any problem with markdown characters, i.e. the asterisk bullet point * .
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