Re: OT Spredsheets
From: David J Brooks The paste special worked in MS excel, but not in numbers. Deuteronomy? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Spredsheets
The paste special worked in MS excel, but not in numbers. Thanks for the help folks Dave On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM, steve harley wrote: >>> On 2011-05-31 11:57 , David J Brooks wrote: If i do that in Apple Numbers or MS Excel, it just puts everything into one line. >>> >>> it worked well for me in Numbers -- it's probably just a matter of selecting >>> exactly the table contents and nothing more; to select, i clicked at the S >>> in Street and dragged to just past 5:06 PM >> >> Same here. Worked fine. > > I was recently trying to copy a different web page table into Excel, > and found that I got different results from different web browsers. > (I'm dismayed to report that copying from IE 8 did what I wanted, and > Firefox did not.) So whether it works or not may depend on the browser > you're using, too. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Spredsheets
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM, steve harley wrote: >> On 2011-05-31 11:57 , David J Brooks wrote: >>> >>> If i do that in Apple Numbers or MS Excel, it just puts everything >>> into one line. >> >> it worked well for me in Numbers -- it's probably just a matter of selecting >> exactly the table contents and nothing more; to select, i clicked at the S >> in Street and dragged to just past 5:06 PM > > Same here. Worked fine. I was recently trying to copy a different web page table into Excel, and found that I got different results from different web browsers. (I'm dismayed to report that copying from IE 8 did what I wanted, and Firefox did not.) So whether it works or not may depend on the browser you're using, too. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Spredsheets
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-05-31 11:57 , David J Brooks wrote: >> >> If i do that in Apple Numbers or MS Excel, it just puts everything >> into one line. > > it worked well for me in Numbers -- it's probably just a matter of selecting > exactly the table contents and nothing more; to select, i clicked at the S > in Street and dragged to just past 5:06 PM Same here. Worked fine. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Spredsheets
On 2011-05-31 11:57 , David J Brooks wrote: If i do that in Apple Numbers or MS Excel, it just puts everything into one line. it worked well for me in Numbers -- it's probably just a matter of selecting exactly the table contents and nothing more; to select, i clicked at the S in Street and dragged to just past 5:06 PM -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Spredsheets
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:57 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > If i do that in Apple Numbers or MS Excel, it just puts everything > into one line. Is there any way to do this properly NOT using > Appleworks. I still have it on the laptop but would like to use a more > up tempo program.:-) I got it to work (using Windows 7, Firefox, Excel 2007): Highlight the table in Firefox and copy to clipboard (Ctrl-C) Select cell A1 in Excel Click the drop-down arrow below "Paste" in the "Home" tab of Excel's ribbon Select "Paste special..." Select "Text", OK It pasted as 14 rows, 4 columns, instead of the single line like regular paste. I don't know how closely this will correspond to Excel on the Mac. > > Here is a link to a route so you can see what i am talking about: > http://www.schoolbuscity.com/Public/default.aspx?load=customPublicStopResults&SchoolCode=G901&SchoolName=ARTS+UNIONVILLE+ANGUS+GLEN+CC > > Dave > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
