331289 - copy/paste of section from tsp into excel does not transfer exactly as it does in IE

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137450

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[dave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

when i access tsp.gov i can copy sections of a spreadsheet of the site's offerings and paste them directly into excel without any alteration in the format when i use IE as the browser; however, when i attempt the same process with Firefox, all i get is a long line of data when i paste into excel.

if this problem has already been addressed, please forgive me but show me how to fix it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. access tsp.gov then click on rates of return and share prices;
2. that brings up a menu; click on share prices;
3. that brings up a spread sheet
4. now, copy any section of the spread sheet
5. now, open excel and paste onto the spread sheet
Actual Results:  
the results with IE are that the copied spread sheet fits exactly into the hi-lited section.

the results with Firefox are that the copied spread sheet all flows onto the top line of the hi-lited section.  this is not a good result.

Expected Results:  
i fully expected Firefox to act the same as IE

Comment 1

[Cameron]

Why on earth you decided to file this under Update I do not know :|

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