# 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:** ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pasting-tables-into-the-composer-behaves-oddly-at-times/72785/28 "2017-11-28T14:34:14Z")

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[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5378](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5378)

PR created to prevent duplicate pasting if both image and text available in clipboard.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Now that we have markdown table support it would be good to have excel paste in as a markdown table

While copy paste from Word, Excel, etc., composer receives multiple inputs with data types like `text/plain`, `text/html`, `text/rtf` and file `image/png` from clipboard. (for the same copied content)

By default `text/plain` getting used. Instead if we use `text/html` by converting it to markdown then not only tables we can support more HTML tags while copy paste.

Else I can convert plain text to markdown table for now.

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