Coping a word table in Numbers wont work

Question

I have been trying to copy a Word table (e.g. 3x3) with numbers into pages to calculate sums.
When I paste into numbers, all the 3 colums appear one under the other in one column.
What I had to do was to copy the table in Excel then back to Numbers for the 3X3 format to be recognized in Numbers.
I am doing something wrong? is this a bug...
Thanks

Answer 1

Hello
I got infos upon the clipboard contents. It doesn't contain the table description.
So, I wrote a short script asking you the number of columns.
Here it is
Save this script as an application.
 -- [SCRIPT]
property nbCols : "3"
set nbCols to text returned of (display dialog "How many colums ?" default answer nbCols)
set nbCols to nbCols as integer
set LF to ASCII character (10)
set myDatas to the clipboard as Unicode text
set delim to return
if myDatas contains LF then set delim to LF
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delim
set list1 to text items of myDatas
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set nb to count of list1
if item nb of list1 is "" then set nb to nb - 1
set nbRows to nb div nbCols
set newDatas to ""
repeat with i from 1 to nbRows
repeat with j from 1 to nbCols - 1
set newDatas to newDatas & (item (j + (i - 1) * nbCols) of list1) & tab
end repeat
set newDatas to newDatas & (item (j + (i - 1) * nbCols) of list1) & return
end repeat
set the clipboard to newDatas
 -- [/SCRIPT]
Store it in the folder:
"Macintosh HD:Users:YourAccount:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:"
create the folder if it doesn't exist.
Now, open your Word document, copy the table's cells in the clipboard.
Run the script by selecting it in the Scripts's menu
Paste the new datas where you want.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 27 octobre 2007 18:57:47)