From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin@rochooni.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to convert an excel to a plain text table Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:52:28 +0200 Organization: Bosch Rexroth AG Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095353685 26303 80.91.229.6 (16 Sep 2004 16:54:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 18:54:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7zWk-0008Vc-00 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:54:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C7zcQ-0004U6-RW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:00:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!news0.de.colt.net!news1.boschrexroth.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.110.240.55 Original-X-Trace: loghost1.eu.boschrexroth.com 1095353461 20278 10.110.240.55 (16 Sep 2004 16:51:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@eu.boschrexroth.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:51:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:BgNrTec93x0mXNJf4eQXXuSEIKQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125361 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20716 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20716 hi, i'd like to insert the contents of an excel table into a plain text table created by the table.el package of Takaaki "Tak" Ota. simple cut and paste converts the tab and newline characters into blanks and fills just one table cell with the whole paste buffer. any ideas ? thank you martin -- martin dot fischer at boschrexroth dot de