# 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")\
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**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785/1 "2017-10-25T18:59:49Z")

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_(this was also a problem in the old one)_

If you paste into the composer and the clipboard has data available in both an image and text format, they both appear:

```plaintext
![image|171x34](upload://sWXiVew6f5ZJK7SHcyYWgaQyWtV.png)col1	col2
A	B

```

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/a/cae6f8f22744ed1ac47825291dd0c7b9f68b5417.png)col1 col2  
A B

It would be better if only the image appeared when a `Paste` action happened, and the text appeared when the `Paste as plain text` action happened.

The formats available for the clipboard data in this case (cells copied from libreoffice) are:

````plaintext
Formats: text/plain;charset=utf-8,text/plain;charset=UTF-8,UTF-8,UTF8_STRING,COMPOUND_TEXT,STRING,application/x-openoffice-embed-source-xml;windows_formatname="Star Embed Source (XML)",application/x-openoffice-objectdescriptor-xml;windows_formatname="Star Object Descriptor (XML)";classname="47BBB4CB-CE4C-4E80-a591-42d9ae74950f";typename="calc8";viewaspect="1";width="4516";height="904";posx="0";posy="0",application/x-openoffice-gdimetafile;windows_formatname="GDIMetaFile",application/x-openoffice-emf;windows_formatname="Image EMF",application/x-openoffice-wmf;windows_formatname="Image WMF",image/png,application/x-openoffice-bitmap;windows_formatname="Bitmap",PIXMAP,image/bmp,text/html,application/x-openoffice-sylk;windows_formatname="Sylk",application/x-openoffice-link;windows_formatname="Link",application/x-openoffice-dif;windows_formatname="DIF",text/richtext,MULTIPLE```
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