Hi Trevor,
I tried a CSV copy and paste as you suggested, but that doesn't work for me. The only workflow that is successful is spreadsheet -> word processor -> VisualEditor. I can't drag a CSV file into VisualEditor, nor can I copy directly from a spreadsheet and paste into VisualEditor. It would be great to have those capabilities.
Pine
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
Pine,
I'm glad to hear VE had your back. This actually reminds me, there's a feature we never really advertised in VisualEditor where a CSV file can be dragged into the editor and a table is created from its contents.
Give it a try. And thank Ed Sanders for all things tables and Copy/Paste.
- Trevor
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hear hear.
The VE people's amazing wizardry deserves praise.
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2015-04-15 11:05 GMT+03:00 Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com javascript:;>:
James,
I just want to say a public "thank you" for VE saving my sanity by
doing
something that I didn't know was possible. I was able to copy a table
from
Word onto Meta using VisualEditor, and much to my surprise it mostly worked. I must have tried at least five other ways to get one of
Cascadia
Wikimedians' annual plan tables copied from Google Docs onto Meta, all
with
poor results. While VisualEditor only copied part of the formatting
into
MediaWiki, the results were far better than anything else I had tried
for
the past few hours. So thank you very much for supporting this copy-and-paste functionality with VisualEditor.
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock
of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water
we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the
broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do
not
know.*
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