IE9 "copy" of tabular data

Has anyone noticed or commented on Copy/Paste of tabular data, which has worked in all previous IEs, fails in IE9?

A "copy" in Opera pastes correctly in IE9, but a "copy" in IE9 strings it all down the page, a cell at a time with loads of extra line feeds.

This seems to be happening with router line stats, and I proved it with tbb speed test results from My Profile.

See this thread in TTTS, but if you want to respond please do so here rather than there. I posted it there because I thought it was a tbb issue, which it isn't.

By the time of the Microsoft press release we'll know we didn't understand copy/paste properly.

In reply to a post by billford:

Ditto.

While searching for an answer to this problem I came across your question, which has not had a good answer. Having spent many hours trying different things, I have found a simple answer.

Click the Compatibility View button, located to the right side of the address bar (next to the Refresh button).

The page will refresh in compatibility view. Now repeat the copy of the table data, which will go onto the clipboard without all the extra line feeds.

The web site will be added to a list of web sites to display in compatibility view, so you should only need to do it once. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197 for more information on IE9 compatibility view.

I had this problem with the Land Registry Housing Price Index and eventually gave up and wrote a little program to fix it.

JPL