# Pasting from spreadsheet won't work if corner cell is empty

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-from-spreadsheet-wont-work-if-corner-cell-is-empty/169443>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-from-spreadsheet-wont-work-if-corner-cell-is-empty/169443 "2020-11-06T15:14:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![rizka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rizka/32/79717_2.png) [@rizka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rizka)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-from-spreadsheet-wont-work-if-corner-cell-is-empty/169443/1 "2020-11-06T15:14:08Z")

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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:

1. Enter some data on a spreadsheet.
2. Copy and paste it to Discourse.
3. Works ✅.

| This | works | perfectly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What | a | lovely |
| feature | this | is. |

1. Go back to spreadsheet.

2. Clear the top-left corner cell or the bottom-right corner cell.

3. Copy and paste it to Discourse.

4. Won’t work. ❌

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.

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