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Removed color text and highlings in GM notes in Tokens & error in the tables.

I do not know where to post this, then ask forgiveness of you if I poested in the wrong place. 1) Why the option to change the color of the text and highlight in the in the GM's observations in the token was removed? For me it was a very useful tool. I could highlight a stat that for certain I would forget during a gameplay, for exemple. 2) Why I can no longer paste a table from Spreadshet Google or Excel in the handouts in a way the information don't disapear?
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Gid
Roll20 Team
I'll point you to the direction of this thread, Gustavo - <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/378657/gm-notes-no-longer-includes-font-color-and-spacing#post-379024" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/378657/gm-notes-no-longer-includes-font-color-and-spacing#post-379024</a> Presently there's a known bug regarding font color with the 3rd Party rich text editor we're using. Once it's fixed, it'll be reenabled. What happens exactly when you paste spreadsheet data into Roll20?
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Well, I have plenty of tables in excel with the items to give to the players, which I paste in a handout for them to see. It worked very well until recently. Well, it's easier to show than to write about it, so here are some scans: The table in Excel (I tried from google spreadsheet too) And here it is when pasted in a handout. The values cells are gone. It's the same thing when pasted in the GM note in a token or a character sheet.
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Lithl
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
As mentioned in the thread Kristin linked to, pasting HTML into the textarea works (for permitted HTML tags). You can try saving your Google Drive spreadsheet as HTML and pasting that into the handout.
Thanks for the tip, Brian, but it did not work. :-\
Probably Excel and Google Spreadsheets are using non-supported tags or styling in the HTML that they output when you are copying it from their site. We do the best we can to clean it up, but sometimes it's simply too complicated or there's too much non-supported stuff. If you can paste the HTML somewhere like pastebin I can take a look at the raw HTML and see if I notice anything in particular. However if it worked before then we may have broken something a couple of updates ago. Again seeing the raw HTML will help me further diagnose the issue.
Thank you, Riley. I think that this last update broke it. Just this last week I had his problem. Well, here is the link to the html for the table: <a href="http://pastebin.com/BRVPDFBh" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/BRVPDFBh</a>
Hmmm, that's odd. When I highlight and copy from the first &lt;table&gt; tag until the last &lt;/table&gt; tag, it seems to work okay:
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Riley, I do not know html, so what I did was just select the cells I needed and pasted in the handout. I'm a complet noob. I managed to paste the entire spreadsheet from html (from the tags &lt;table&gt; and &lt;/table&gt; as you said), but how do I find out only the rows I need to copy? Does this problem with the interpretation with the tables do not have to do with the problems with 3rd party rich text editor that Kristin mentioned above? Thank you everyone for the help.
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Lithl
Pro
Sheet Author
API Scripter
Yikes, is that code seriously how GDocs saves its spreadsheet data to HTML? That's disgusting. Even after churning that pile through a beautifier, it's still got things like quintuple-nested cells with no other content. (td is not supposed to be the child of a td!) Gustavo, the technical answer to your question about including only certain rows is that each pair of &lt;tr&gt; and &lt;/tr&gt; tags creates a single row. But after looking at that HTML, I have misgivings about recommending that you even try. Are you able to delete rows from the handout/character sheet after pasting? It may be worth pasting the entire table and then deleting unneeded rows through the editor, rather than trying to pick out the unwanted bits in That Which Shall Not Be Named.
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Yes, Brian, I can delete a row from a handout/character after pasting. However, it is so laborious that loses the reason to continue to do so. I have to save the table as .html find the tags and copy them, paste the handout, and delete line by line and what I do not want. It is a big complication in comparison with before, when during a session, I had only to choose the lines I wanted in the excel, copy and paste in the handout. I hope that there will be a fix for this. Apparently, there are others like me who are with this problem: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/397542/character-sheet-issues-since-last-update#post-399270" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/397542/character-sheet-issues-since-last-update#post-399270</a>
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Gid
Roll20 Team
Riley just pushed an update to Main that should help with your issues with table editing and the color highlighting features have returned.
Thank you, Kristin and Riley. The return of the color highlighting feature is very welcome. I still can not paste a table directly from excel or google spreadshert, but could paste tables from Word. To me it is a great help. Thank you all for your support.