Excel-Paste Special - Unicode Text [IE8 vs Firefox]

[windunce]

When I am logged onto https://chaseonline.chase.com/Logon.aspx using IE8 I get different results than when browsing with Firefox.
When I choose to list all transactions and those transaction are listed, I then drag to highlight them and then hit CTRL-C.

When using IE8, I then open Excel and choose Paste Special and the headers Trans Date/Post Date/Type/Description/Transaction Number
are all lumped together and only the Amount header is placed in a seperate column.

When the above actions are replicated while browsing with Firefox ALL the headers are placed in seperate columns.

WHY IS THERE A DIFFERENCE???

For now my solution is to use Firefox to browse that site. But is there a 'switch' in IE8 or Excel that I should use so that
Paste Special works the same irregardless of what browser I am using?

TIA
Windunce

[teylyn]

Hi windunce,

the difference is in how different browsers handle the formatting information in the HTML and/or CSS (if present). There are lots of differences that could account for what you are seeing. Web designers often have to jump through a number of hoops to make a page appear the same in different browsers. This may mean that for FF they actually use different formatting settings than for IE.

Short of going back to the web designers of the page and asking them to make the formatting behave the same, there's nothing you can do to improve the Excel end of things.

cheers

[windunce]

Hi windunce,

Short of going back to the web designers of the page...

cheers

Cello and thanks

So there it is. Wonderful. Now I can stop attempting the impossible
and begin to compose a new post....to Chase.

Dear Web Designers:


Thanks for pointing me in in the right direction!