feature requestProductivity · Collaboration & MessagingsituationalTask ManagementIntegrationUX

Slack lacks native table copy/paste support

Slack users cannot copy and paste tables between Slack and other tools without losing formatting. This creates friction for teams sharing tabular data in business workflows. The absence of table support forces manual reformatting or workarounds.

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