I see that there was a bug request closed for this but no explanation was given other than "that's the way it is". It is something that excel supports and it is a lot easier than copying all of the data into a massive rectangle. Thanks https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87758
(In reply to austn3 from comment #0) > ...It is something that excel supports > and it is a lot easier than copying all of the data into a massive rectangle. It sounds plausible as an enhancement, so this will live in NEW until someone picks it up to work on it or decides to reclassify it Status -> NEW