# G4P tabulator in textarea

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/g4p-tabulator-in-textarea/1845>\
**Category:** Libraries\
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/g4p-tabulator-in-textarea/1845 "2018-07-17T08:33:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![MxFxM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MxFxM](https://discourse.processing.org/u/MxFxM)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/g4p-tabulator-in-textarea/1845/1 "2018-07-17T08:33:02Z")

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Hi there,  
if I copy paste some data from excel into the texteditor (windows standard) I get fromatted text wih tabulator as space between data.  
If I copy paste it into a G4P textArea I get no tabulator-spaces whatsoever.

Does anybody know a workaround?

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**Author:** ![quark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/quark/32/26_2.png) [@quark](https://discourse.processing.org/u/quark)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/g4p-tabulator-in-textarea/1845/2 "2018-07-17T09:04:45Z")

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The G4P textArea control does not support tabulated text. The only way I can think of doing it would be to uses spaces instead of tabs and a monospaced font e.g. Courier to ensure horizontal alignment of the columns.

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**Author:** ![MxFxM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MxFxM](https://discourse.processing.org/u/MxFxM)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/g4p-tabulator-in-textarea/1845/3 "2018-07-17T11:34:52Z")

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> [@quark](#):
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> The G4P textArea control does not support tabulated text.

Ok that’s good to know. For now I found a workaround but if it comes up in the future I will have to think of a proper way to do it.