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how to paste tab-delimited text into a table

Kai_rc6yyx

With the new editor, which is in many respects a lot worse than the old one, I don't seem to be able to convert tab-delimited text to tables, no matter whether I copy-paste it in an existing table or into a blank space and attempting to convert it later .

What's happening here? Does Atlassian really want to dumb us down to their extremely low new standards where you have only one - excrutiatingly cumbersome - way to do things?

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Audrey Shull

My team is also searching for a way to do this. We have found a few paths to do it, but it is extremely cumbersome and requires using Excel or Word or some other intervening step.

Jim Ryan_i7qtag

We are having the same problem. Atlassian continuously removes functionality that used to exist and was very useful in favor of "pretty" interfaces that are simple but can't do anything.

But hey, at least they didn't mark this question as "SOLVED" by saying they're not going to fix it!

On the other hand, they're not going to fix it.

Andrew Wilkinson_ca4bhy

Pasting into Excel or Google Sheets and then copying that into the Jira editor seems to work quite well for me, but it seems clunky to have to do it that way.

anish_patel_1r6xyx

what a tip, this works great!

mm4rt1n3z

Best tip ever!

Matt Brauer

This is why I despise Confluence.

jeffrey.wright

Sergey Trinogin

Couple years has gone. No good news...

Robert Maciasz

only 4, look at this

Chris Brooker_ds3mjw

Just to add to this copy & paste from Excel seems to work best when you have "All borders" around the data you want to turn into a table

Ian Brown_ukf0kk

And still not fixed. But Hey they've shoehorned AI into the editor.

Thomas Ender_0qlt2i

The easiest way to do this is to convert your tab-separated text into a Markdown table first, and then paste that directly into the editor.

The modern Atlassian editor instantly detects Markdown tables and auto-converts them into native, editable tables upon pasting.

The format to use:

| Column 1 | Column 2 |

| --- | --- |

| Row 1, Cell 1 | Row 1, Cell 2 |

| Row 2, Cell 1 | Row 2, Cell 2 |

Steps:

Put your data into the standard pipe | format shown above (you can quickly ask any AI or use an online generator to convert your tabbed text to Markdown).
Copy the Markdown code.

• 3. Paste ($\text{Ctrl}+\text{V}$ / $\text{Cmd}+\text{V}$) directly into your Jira description, comment, or Confluence page. It will instantly transform into a native table.

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