Publisher: Paste a list into table

[big smile]

In other DTP programs, if you paste a list into a table, then every entry in the list will appear as a separate row on the table.

 

Is there any way to do this in Affinity Publisher? When the whole list is just pasted into the first cell.

 

By a list, I mean something that has line breaks. For example:

Andalusia
Andes
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Canary Islands
Caribbean
Catalonia

 

[Old Bruce]

16 minutes ago, big smile said:

if you paste a list into a table, then every entry in the list will appear as a separate row on the table.

Is there any way to do this in Affinity Publisher? When the whole list is just pasted into the first cell.

There is some quirk or bug with pasting a list into a table. Seems to me I have to first paste the text into a Frame Text text frame then copy that and select several rows and paste. If I use text copied from a separate application and try to paste it directly into Publisher then I get all the text in one cell no matter how many cells I have selected.

This quirky bug drives me up the wall.

 

[thomaso]

Yes, there is "a" way – its details depend on your platform (mac/win) and the source file type (spreadsheet, .rtf, txt. … etc.). So it appears to be a more or less complex procedure which requires to consider several if-then conditions.

This two threads discuss this and include sucessful workflows:

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

If I use text copied from a separate application and try to paste it directly into Publisher then I get all the text in one cell no matter how many cells I have selected.

FWIW, for me if using Safari I copy the list from the first post to the clipboard, it works fine if I first select enough cells ... but if say I paste that text into TexEdit & do not make the format Rich Text then it all ends up in the first selected cell.

So if you copy the text from this text list.rtf file, if you then select at least two cells & paste, does it work for you?