# AI tables into **Excel or Sheets**

1. Paste the AI answer above. If it has more than one table, pick the one you want.
2. Tap Copy table.
3. In Excel or Google Sheets, click the cell where the table should start, such as A1 on a new sheet, and paste.

The header row comes through in bold. Formatting inside cells, like bold words or links, is dropped so each cell holds a clean value.

Excel changes some values as you paste them. 007 becomes 7, 1/2 or 2024-01-05 becomes a date, a 13-digit order number turns into 1.23457E+12, and anything starting with = runs as a formula.

MDMelt marks those cells as text, so Excel keeps them exactly as written. Ordinary numbers like 1,280 or 37.5% stay numbers, so you can still add them up.

Date-like values are kept as text too, because Excel can read 03/04 as March 4 or April 3 depending on your settings. If you need real dates for sorting or math, select the column and use Data → Text to Columns, or the DATEVALUE function.

Google Sheets ignores Excel’s text marker. If Sheets changes a value, select the column, choose Format → Number → Plain text, and paste again.

The answer probably didn’t contain a Markdown table. Copying an answer by selecting it with the mouse often turns the table into spaces or tabs, which can’t be read back reliably.

Use the copy button under the answer instead. If the AI wrote the table as a list, ask it to “put this in a Markdown table” and copy again.