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Pasting Word table into Excel creates cells within table rows, removes hyperlinks (MS 365 for Mac)
Yes, a perfectly good question. Reason 1: I'm collaborating with someone who is absolutely committed to Excel, and he's senior in our collaboration. He's tolerated my use of tables in the past, but for this very large one, it's become an issue. Reason 2: I find that for a table with ca. 4K rows, not only does it take up to a minute to save, also often typing new text suffers from a significant delay - also searching and replacing are slow. Excel doesn't have this issue, at least in my trials so far. I imagine Word is recalculating something to do with the structure in the background, while Excel has the structure fixed. But since I'm a long-time Mac user, and have previously avoided Word and Excel entirely, I don't really know. I usually work in Nisus Writer Pro, and do everything in RTF - but translating from RTF on a Mac to Word (let alone Excel) on a Windows machine has its own issues.
Anyway, not impertinent at all. I remain much happier with tables when I'm on my own.
Hmmm.. I'm long time Mac myself. Hadn't heard of Nisus Writer Pro till you mentioned it. It looks fascinating.
When I'm feeling creative (or wanting to pretend to that status) I use Scrivener, which is what some true author friends use.
Excel--for those purposes in which it excels--is lots of fun. And Word, frankly, satisfies most of my text-intensive applications. Scrivener comes in handy for the occasional bigger and longer term writing project.