pasting clipboard from Excel

[Jonathan Lynch]

I would not mind if there were an external that gives an LC user complete
access to even the most obscure corners of the clipboard.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Keith Clarke <
keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote:

> ...indeed, hence the suggestion - to test whether the problem is non-text
> elements getting into the clipboard that LC doesn't like.
>
> That way, you can at least prove whether you have the option to add
> LC-friendly pre-processing via a user-friendly Excel trick, such as a nice
> big 'Export to LC' button that drives a macro that will copy the range,
> paste-special-values somewhere and then copy clean text from there into the
> clipboard.
>
> On 13 Sep 2011, at 17:43, Colin Holgate wrote:
>
> > That would be more steps than what I do now, which is to just do a paste
> in any other program, then the next paste into LiveCode works ok.
> >
> >
> > On Sep 13, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Keith Clarke wrote:
> >
> >> As you can control the source, is it worth (at least to test) saving the
> range into a CSV format to force everything to plain text. That way non-text
> elements shouldn't get into the clipboard?
> >
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