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martin@rochooni.net writes:

> 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 ?

Export from Excel as CSV (or some other ASCII format).  There must be
a CSV reading package somewhere.

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