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copy and paste table data
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:49 pm
by wbrisett
While I can import a text document with tab/comma delimited data and have Oxygen write it out in a way that makes it easy for me to create tables. I would love to see Oxygen be smart enough to take pasted data and do the same thing.
Wayne
Re: copy and paste table data
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:36 pm
by Costin
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback.
Unfortunately this is not currently possible off-the-peg in oXygen for all edit modes.
However, there is a method to get data in Oxygen from Excel. It can be copied directly from Excel to the clipboard and pasted in Oxygen in the Grid mode. Some preparation is required for this.
You have to create in Oxygen an XML file that replicates the structure of the table(same number of columns), switch to Grid mode and paste the copied content from Excel at top left corner from the blank table.
e.g.
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<root>
<row>
<item1/>
<item2/>
...
<itemN/>
</row>
<row>
<item1/>
<item2/>
...
<itemN/>
</row>
</root>
You can already name the cell/item elements in any way you want. But the row elements must have the same name(e.g. "row" in this case).
I have logged an this as an improvement request on our issue tracking system and forwarded it to the development team to be analyzed for a future implementation.