Comments on: Quick Comparison of Numbers vs. Excel/Google Spreadsheet

By: Powers that be

Powers that be — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:48:30 +0000

It’s because of the different format of the text copied between Safari and Firefox. Firefox copies them with a tab between cells on the row (one row per line), Safari a combination of linebreaks and spaces. Firefox is definitely the one to use if you are converting tabular data to a spreadsheet.

By: Damon

Damon — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:11:45 +0000

Ah, igor, you’re right! How silly of me not to try in multiple browsers.

By: igor

igor — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:42:08 +0000

Sorry - I meant “described” not “prescribed”…

How ever - upon submitting my comment I got a big fat error message from your blog - something about a header not beeing okay… just thought you would like to know about that too…

By: igor

igor — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:37:38 +0000

Hmmmm - just tried it myself with Numbers :

Done exactly the way you prescribed above: Apple-C then Apple-V (using Firefox 2.0.0.4) works like a charm…

Now the interesting thing: tried again with Safari this time - got your result, respectively it did not work… does that help?

Cheers!

By: john

john — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:39:38 +0000

where can i get the list of codes like jump 15 min forward?

By: Damon

Damon — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:48:04 +0000

Hi William,
Would you mind posting a quick description of the steps you took? I simply went to the source page, highlighted the table, switched to Numbers and pressed Ctrl+v. You can see the results of my test in a couple Flickr photos that I posted.

By: william

william — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:23:22 +0000

well, out of curiosity i attempted to replicate what you did with no success. i dont know what you did but copying and pasting the table that you had a link for in your acticle turned out exactly the way it should have looked. so i think you should retry your test instead of posting this misinformation.