Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table
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I have a macOS user who uses Excel and OWA (Outlook Web Access.) She wants to copy and paste a spreadsheet from Excel into an email. Other people on Windows do this without any issue. The file in the email should be a table in the email itself and be able to be edited by someone who receives it. But on the Mac when she does this, the table is actually a JPEG or PNG image, not a table.
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I have determined that the issue is in Excel and not in the email. When you "copy" a set of cells from Excel you get an image in the clipboard.
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We installed LibreOffice and determined that it does the same thing. So the issue appears to be macOS related, and not specific to any app on it.
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Install a clipboard manager for macOS. Clipboard is usually multiformat and it's both the sender and the receiver is involved in the exchange. WIth a clipboard manager you can see what you have in the clipboard and what format it is available in.
I would guess that what you need to paste spreadsheet in an email is actually a html table.
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@Pete-S said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:
Install a clipboard manager for macOS. Clipboard is usually multiformat and it's both the sender and the receiver is involved in the exchange. WIth a clipboard manager you can see what you have in the clipboard and what format it is available in.
I would guess that what you need to paste spreadsheet in an email is actually a html table.
Got a clipboard manager suggestion?
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@scottalanmiller said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:
@Pete-S said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:
Install a clipboard manager for macOS. Clipboard is usually multiformat and it's both the sender and the receiver is involved in the exchange. WIth a clipboard manager you can see what you have in the clipboard and what format it is available in.
I would guess that what you need to paste spreadsheet in an email is actually a html table.
Got a clipboard manager suggestion?
No, sorry but unfortunately not. I have a distaste for all apple products so I avoid them, even if I did some OS9 development many moons ago.
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Does copying from Excel to Word, then copy from Word to Mail help?
In Excel, use File > Save as web page, then attach the web page to your email message?
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Clearly the great and powerful Apple has determined that this is the correct behavior when pasting. How dare you question their correctness!
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@RojoLoco said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:
Clearly the great and powerful Apple has determined that this is the correct behavior when pasting. How dare you question their correctness!
How many levels of funny and serious did you just hit?
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@LilAng said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:
Does copying from Excel to Word, then copy from Word to Mail help?
Even just to Word doesn't work. It's an image.
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@LilAng said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:
In Excel, use File > Save as web page, then attach the web page to your email message?
Yeah, we found that process. That's a pretty huge "fail" process.
