Can't paste Excel graphs in v 3.9

In the interim, is there any way to get back to the old version of WordPress? I have a bunch of students taking the exam of their lives on June 7 and need to publish a number of articles to help them study. This glitch has left me dead in the water.

I was just checking back hoping that someone had a solution to this problem but I see there has been no activity in the past week. I really need to be able to paste the grid from Excel into my website. This is really messing me up! Please help!

I was told by one of my students that there’s an update/patch for the visual editor. Anybody know anything about that?

Thanks!

@mika: I followed your link and it appears that they’re concentrating on the problem with pasting tables, and that all communication stopped two weeks ago.

Any word on whether we’ll ever be able to paste graphs again? I’d hate to have to redo all of my work – over 100 pages – in another web development program simply because of this mishap.

Thanks!

I just discovered a way to “survive” this mess(totally by accident) BUT it is definitely NOT an acceptable solution to the problem. This still needs to be fixed!
If you copy a portion of an Excel spreadsheet that you want to put on a website page, then paste it into a Word document, then copy it from the word document and paste it into the visual editor, it does maintain the formatting.
This allows the ease of creating in Excel instead of trying to use a Word table but you can still paste it.

This still needs to be fixed!

Um – why? There is no “Paste from Excel” in the WP Visual editor and there never has been for the simple reason that spreadsheets do not belong on the web. If you want to publish tabulated data on the web, use HTML tables. if you want to publish charts, convert them to images and upload the images.

Exactly what Esmi has stated. If you’re trying to generate tables without writing code, then just use a table creation plugin.

Other than that, tables should be coded/displayed via code, not a copy and paste from Excel.

Hi Esmi, it has always been possible to copy and paste an excel spreadsheet directly into the text editor, it would then display in page exactly as it should be.
Here are some examples of before update 3.9:
https://www.full-house-poker.co.uk/dingle/ if I try an update this page after 3.9 update it will display like this:
https://www.full-house-poker.co.uk/the-fleece/
something has clearly changed and it affects the whole purpose of my site, any help is gratefully received.

Also a big thanks to dirtymiles for the https://tableizer.journalistopia.com workaround which has helped a lot, not the perfect answer but a very good help, this is how it shows up on my site using the tableizer; https://www.full-house-poker.co.uk/strawberry-fields/

Maybe you are interested in a solution to embed spreadsheets into a WP Editor:

How to insert spreadsheets in a WordPress blog

But what esmi said is true

If you want to publish tabulated data on the web, use HTML tables.

@etmsoft The issue here is a regression in WordPress 3.9 and the ability to cut and paste Excel tables into the WordPress editor.

There are more TinyMCE 4.0 updates slated for WordPress 3.9.2 that fix many of the issues outlined in this thread, tickets and details here.

Thank you both for your speedy replies, I look forward to the updates.