Copy and Paste Complications

Michael Zuberi

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  1. 2019
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Hi ,I am trying to copy and paste some data from a website (www.statarea.com) but when I paste it on excel it all appears in one cell with all contents going downwards, Is there a way I can copy and paste it to appear same as is on website?
When I paste it in Excel, click into one of the cells and paste my clipboard content It pastes it into one long cell instead of formatting it into the column/row format as it appeared in the HTML table.
 

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Unfortunately, the data on this site (at least the samples I checked) is not structured as a table in the HTML, just as a sequence of nested DIV elements. It is only made to appear as a table probably with CSS.
So the actual data structure is not a table, but a "list" of sorts.
So copy/paste will not produce the result you desire.
 
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