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I usually copy and paste cells from Microsoft Excel to Gmail for work, this was was being pasted as an table of text that I could edit.
Then my computer was reformatted because of some issues and now after trying to use it again for work, I tried copying cells from Excel and pasting it in Gmail as usual, but now the cells aren't being pasted as a table, but as an image, like a screenshot of the cells. Could it be a software I had before or something?
Now the only way I can copy and paste cells from Excel is to go through Word, which adds an extra step.
I tried reinstalling MS Office, and it still didn't work, I'm currently using Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019.
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There's no issue if copy/paste from Google Sheets... May be someone decided to push in this direction?!
I think it's a gmail issue. I've also been copy pasting for years with excel 2016 and now 2019 without any formatting issues. I've just tried with 2016 also. Doesn't work. The soft developers probably thought "Oh guys, I've got an idea, let's make excel spreadsheet data unusable by transforming it into an image. People will love it"
Actually, issue persists on firefox as well on Windows.
Didn't run into that. Anyway, the work around mentioned in my initial comment works.
Hope that is helpful to some until this issue is resolved.
Actually, issue persists on firefox as well on Windows.
Its not a chrome issue , Firefox has the same problem as well .
Works on mine. MacOS 11.4, Firefox 89.0.