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Pasting table from Word causes infinite rows

Open audunmb opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

Describe the bug When pasting a table from Word (desktop app) Nexctloud Text somehow inserts empty rows above the pasted content. The empty rows fill the screen. As I scroll down to the content, more rows are added above the content continiously filling the screen with empty rows.

Expected behavior Expected behaviour is no empty rows inserted, or at least not an infinite amount of empty rows.

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Word with tables, marked (grey) text is copied to clipboard Word with tables, marked text is copied to clipboard

When pasted into Text, screen is filled with empty rows pasted into Text produces empty rows

Screenshot as more and more rows added above the pasted content. I need to be quick to get this screenshot before the empty rows filled the whole screen. pasted content as rows are continously added above, check the scrollbar

Client details:

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Browser: Firefox (112.0.2 (64-bit))
  • Word: Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 32-biters MSO (Version 2304 Build 16.0.16327.20200)
  • Device: Desktop

Text app version: 3.7.2

Nextcloud version: 26.0.1

audunmb avatar May 11 '23 13:05 audunmb

Looks similar to #2708

I tried to reproduce this with a simple table, but on macOS it seems that word is adding the content as an image to the clipboard which is pasted instead.

juliusknorr avatar May 12 '23 06:05 juliusknorr

@Hephi2 Since you're the one with WIndows in our team, any chance you have Word around and can reproduce this?

juliusknorr avatar Jun 16 '23 07:06 juliusknorr

If reproducible it might be worth to see if https://github.com/nextcloud/text/pull/4285 helps

juliusknorr avatar Jun 16 '23 08:06 juliusknorr

This seems to be a problem with the Firefox Browser. Any table copied into text in the Firefox Browser is buggy: For me, every change in the table triggers creating a new row at the top of the table. This should not be related to word but only to Firefox. #4285 does not solve this problem.

Hephi2 avatar Jun 20 '23 08:06 Hephi2

As discussed also happens with pasting the html table from https://github.com/nextcloud/text/issues/2708

juliusknorr avatar Jun 21 '23 11:06 juliusknorr

I no longer can reproduce this problem when copy & pasting tables from Word (MS 365 Online) into Text. Tables with multiline contents and merged cells get mangled, but the infinite rows issue is no longer reproducible to me. I wonder whether this got also fixed in #2708.

Everybody still experiencing this, please comment and ideally provide a clear reproducer.

mejo- avatar Oct 27 '25 15:10 mejo-