Pasting tables from Mac TextEdit to InDesign CS4

Hi,
The thread title says it all, really.
Can you paste tables from Mac's TextEdit to InDesign CS4?

Pasting table content will paste as tabbed text. You can place (cmd+d) RTF (not RTFD) and maintain tables.
You will lose custom strokes and a few other formatting elements, but overall placing tables will preserve the integrity of them as you find them in text edit.

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For some reason I was thinking of the paste in place It had a different name in PM and I was thinking paste special was it.
here you go the link to the help files
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-70d3a.html#W Sa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-70d1a
Adobe IDCS4 search for paste special.
http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?searchterm=paste+special&q=paste+special&l=ind esign_product_adobelr&x=0&y=0&area=0&lr=en_US&hl=en_US

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I'll hunt for pastebin.com and put a copy of the crash log there, and will reply here when I've done that.
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I'll go and place a crash log at pastebin.com now. Many thanks!

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