Pasting tables into your project

You can copy and paste tables from webpages, word processors and spreadsheets into Overleaf.

Pasting tables into your Overleaf project

Visual Editor can’t fully preserve the form and style of every table pasted into your project, but you can still save time and effort by pasting a wide range of tables created in other applications.

Visual Editor tries to preserve and preview the following table elements:

• horizontally merged cells (spanning multiple columns)

• borders applied to cells

• formatting of text within table cells

• table captions and headings

Visual Editor also lets you modify the pasted table, such as editing cell contents or adding rows and columns. You can also switch to Code Editor to make changes, including setting $\LaTeX$ parameters that control the table’s position within the typeset document.