Is it possible to add editable table from Excel to JIRA description?

Paavo

I have tables that I need to copy-paste to JIRA. Problem is that when I paste it to JIRA it will look different, it doesn't add the formatting. And if I try to add formatting it just gets more difficult to read. So I need to have one standard so that I can copy paste data instead of manually adding data to description. For example:

Age: 30 
Name: Peter Parker
Job: Photographer

Thank you for your help!

Earl McCutcheon

Hello,

Depending on which version of Jira you are on enabling the the Rich Text editor (Visual Mode) will preserve the table structure formatting on a copy and paste from Excel to Jira, this is available on Jira 7.2 and later:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver/visual-editing-939937919.html

Alternatively, using Wiki Style Render without the visual editor enabled, Check out this Blog with the conversion process:

• https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/embed-excel-tables-jira-issues

And this previous community post on the topic that gives some workarounds:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Convert-a-spreadsheet-into-a-table/qaq-p/195785

Basically you will want to convert tab characters that Excel uses as the delimiter to a pipe character "|" for jira wiki style render to create the table, I also found an online tool that another user created that is built to execute this conversion:

• https://excel2jira.bluurgh.com/

Regards,
Earl