KNOWLEDGEBASE - ARTICLE #1784

Bug: When pasting from Excel, < turns into "&lt;"

If you copy text from Excel and paste into column or row titles in Prism, the less than symbol < gets converted to  "&lt;" , which is the is the HTML entity for 'less than' character. Similarly, the greater than symbol > gets converted to "&gt;" . 

This is only a problem with Prism Windows. We see the problem with 5.04, and have not tested earlier releases. 

There is an easy workaround: Instead of using the Paste command, use Paste...Link  or Paste.. Embed. To use Paste Link, you must first save your Excel file so it has a file name. 

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