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How to paste tab separated text to multiple cells in numbers?

I cannot paste tab-separated text to multiple cells in numbers on my mac.

The numbers version is 10.3.5 (7029.5.5)

For example, I have a text "a\tb\tc", where "\t" means a tab character.

When I paste it into numbers, it becomes below.

But it is expected to be

How can I make it?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Dec 11, 2020 5:36 AM

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Posted on Dec 11, 2020 6:15 AM

Interesting. Numbers will interpret it as a table and separate it into columns and rows like you desire if you have two lines like this (separated by tabs)

a b c

d e f

But it does not seem to do the same if there is just one row. I tried it with just a carriage return and no second row of data but it needs at least one "cell' in the second row to figure out it is a "table" being imported.


I do not have an answer at this time, just pointing out what I see happening. Maybe it is something obvious I am missing here.

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Dec 11, 2020 6:15 AM in response to 凌昊

Interesting. Numbers will interpret it as a table and separate it into columns and rows like you desire if you have two lines like this (separated by tabs)

a b c

d e f

But it does not seem to do the same if there is just one row. I tried it with just a carriage return and no second row of data but it needs at least one "cell' in the second row to figure out it is a "table" being imported.


I do not have an answer at this time, just pointing out what I see happening. Maybe it is something obvious I am missing here.

How to paste tab separated text to multiple cells in numbers?

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