Hi, i cannot reproduce that here on Mac OS X and Excel 2016 (V 15.30). I executed your sample code in the messagebox and was able to paste successfully the clipboard to Excel. I even tried with alpha numeric values.
But what i noticed is the following: When i just click on a cell, so that it is selected without showing the blinking write cursor in the cell, then pasting is working w/o problems. When i double click a cell, so that it is selected and the blinking write cursor is shown, then i cannot paste it correctly. Tried with LC 8.19RC2 and LC9DP11. Will try on Windows later this day. Regards, Matthias > Am 03.02.2018 um 05:19 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>: > > Someone asked me this and I don't have an answer: > > Before LC 8, you could put tabbed strings into the clipboard, paste into > Excel or Google Sheets, and each tabbed item would go into a separate cell. > After LC 8, the tabbed items go into a single cell as one string. > > How can we make Excel recognize the tabs? > > For example: > > put 1 &tab& 2 &tab& 3 into temp > set the clipboardData["text"] to temp > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > <mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > <http://www.hyperactivesw.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode