Why is it when I copy cells from Excel and paste it into Gmail, the cells are pasted as an Image?

Anonymous
2021-06-08T08:50:47+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-09T23:17:41+00:00

    Copying to from Excel 2016 > Google Sheet > Gmail Email has also been the work around I've been using.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-09T22:30:21+00:00

    I am a WPS user, and the issue is the same for me, so this probably verifies that it is a gmail issue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-09T22:17:35+00:00

    Thank you for the tip! It will be nice when the issue is fully resolved.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-09T22:16:40+00:00

    This is an issue with Google Chrome 91.0.4472.101. When copying from Excel, one can see using the 'Clipboard & Drop Inspector' app that an image is associated with the plain text in the copied table. When you do the cut and paste into Word trick, you can see the associated image disappear and only rich text in the clipboard.

    Google should either:

    Make Gmail prefer rich text over file when handling paste events in browser

    OR

    Update Chrome to stop the image pasting behavior

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-09T22:04:17+00:00

    I had a user in our environment bring this up today. I've confirmed that this began happening with Chrome's newest update.

    I was on version 91.0.4472.77 today and it worked fine, updated to version 91.0.4472.101 and it pasted as an image.

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