# Pasting tables into the composer behaves oddly at times

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785 "2017-10-25T18:59:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785/55 "2022-01-13T20:04:18Z")

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I think @simon meant that the same clipboard content is available as text and image.  
I just tested it by copying multiple cells out of LibreOffice Calc. It puts tab delimited text **and** an image of the cells into the clipboard. I assume Microsoft Excel does the same.

The result is this:

```plaintext
column A	column B
a1	b1
a2	b2
![image|256x77](upload://1CSBoxgR28OkiAGuNNGipzSJTlJ.png)

```

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785/56 "2022-01-13T20:06:07Z")

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So this is specific to _tables?_ If so this topic has a very incorrect and misleading title, which is extremely annoying..

edit: fixed.

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785/57 "2022-01-13T21:57:03Z")

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Yeah, I’ve been seeing this with _tables_.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785/58 "2022-02-02T01:50:43Z")

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This could possibly be related to the uppy changes @martin, can you have a look?

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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785/60 "2022-02-03T06:39:55Z")

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I have a PR to fix this, will merge it in tomorrow:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/15787](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/15787)

Edit: This PR has now been merged.

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