191782 - copying data from browser in to MS Excel results all data in one cell rather than copying structure

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 137450

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

copying tables to ms excel document results in all data in single cell rather
than preserving rows/columns format

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/stats/scor.html
2. Ctrl C (copy) data in table
3. open ms excel, open new sheet, crtl P (paste) data

Actual Results:  
PLAYER GP G A PTS +/- PIM PP SH GW GT S PCTG Mario Lemieux Pittsburgh 41 20 48
68 4- 8 10 0 3 0 148 13.5 Markus Naslund Vancouver 52 35 30 65 1 44 19 0 10 1
185 18.9 Joe Thornton Boston 46 24 38 62 18 82 8 1 4 0 119 20.2 Todd Bertuzzi
Vancouver 52 28 30 58 4- 106 14 0 4 1 143 19.6 Alexei Kovalev Pittsburgh 51 23
35 58 12- 46 8 0 1 0 190 12.1 Mike Modano Dallas 50 20 38 58 23 20 2 2 4 0 127
15.7 Glen Murray Boston 51 27 30 57 19 44 5 0 4 1 195 13.8 Jaromir Jagr
Washington 52 27 29 56 2 24 12 2 7 0 221 12.2 Milan Hejduk Colorado 50 25 30 55
19 26 12 0 3 1 155 16.1 Peter Forsberg Colorado 44 16 39 55 17 28 5 0 0 0 104
15.4 Doug Weight St. Louis 53 11 44 55 0 36 4 0 2 0 145 7.6 Marian Hossa Ottawa
53 33 20 53 2 18 12 0 8 1 156 21.2 Alexander Mogilny Toronto 46 22 31 53 3 6 5 2
8 0 94 23.4 Pavol Demitra St. Louis 49 18 35 53 4 14 5 0 2 0 126 14.3 Martin St
Louis Tampa Bay 52 27 25 52 4 26 10 2 3 1 126 21.4 Daniel Alfredsson Ottawa 50
20 32 52 7 22 6 0 4 0 158 12.7


Expected Results:  
should have preserved player rows and statistical column information in ms excel
document

workaround is to use ms explorer.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137450 ***