298739 - Copy Paste of a table to Excel puts everything in one cell, rather than individual cells

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137450

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ralph]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Copy Paste of a table to Excel puts the entire contents of the table in a single
cell, rather than putting each table box into its own cell, which is what I
would expect.

This happens on almost every table I have tried to do this for.

Trying the exact same page with IE, always gives the desired results.

The URL with the bug is a Bugzilla search that I just did to see if such a bug
was reported before, but I have had this problem at dozens of sites.   IE works
on this page just fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Excel - blank worksheet
2. Go to the URL given 
3. Go to the middle of the page and select the table of bugs
4. Copy
5. Switch to Excel
5. Paste into any cell 

Actual Results:  
All the text got pasted into one cell

Expected Results:  
Put each piece of text into into own cell

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

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

Comment 2

[Jim Cargill]

My problem was that anything copied from Firefox 1.5 pages became an attachment to an Outlook e-mail rather than pasted text.
I then tried going back to 1.07. After uninstalling 1.5 and then installing 1.07 I found the 'File/Edit/View..' title bar corrupted - the words were bunched on the left and were purely Times New Roman text. Restarting had no effect.
Now back to having to cut & paste from 1.5 into MS Word - what a pain!!!

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> My problem was that anything copied from Firefox 1.5 pages became an attachment
> to an Outlook e-mail rather than pasted text.
> I then tried going back to 1.07. After uninstalling 1.5 and then installing
> 1.07 I found the 'File/Edit/View..' title bar corrupted - the words were
> bunched on the left and were purely Times New Roman text. Restarting had no
> effect.
> Now back to having to cut & paste from 1.5 into MS Word - what a pain!!!

That's not this bug, it's bug 315370, which you already commented on...