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Copied table from Excel is pasted as raw HTML
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Description
### To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Copy table from [example_table.xlsx](https://github.com/github/issues/files/11222266/example_table.xlsx)
2. Open Google Chrome and navigated to Web UI on GHES 3.8 instance (This issue is reproduced in GitHub.com as well)
3. Paste it on a issue comment. It is pasted as raw HTML.
```
<!--table
{mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\.";
mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}
@page
{margin:.75in .7in .75in .7in;
mso-header-margin:.3in;
mso-footer-margin:.3in;}
.font5
{color:windowtext;
font-size:6.0pt;
font-weight:400;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none;
font-family:游ゴシック;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-charset:128;}
tr
{mso-height-source:auto;
mso-ruby-visibility:none;}
col
{mso-width-source:auto;
mso-ruby-visibility:none;}
br
{mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
td
{padding-top:1px;
padding-right:1px;
padding-left:1px;
mso-ignore:padding;
color:black;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:400;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none;
font-family:游ゴシック;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-number-format:General;
text-align:general;
vertical-align:middle;
border:none;
mso-background-source:auto;
mso-pattern:auto;
mso-protection:locked visible;
white-space:nowrap;
mso-rotate:0;}
ruby
{ruby-align:left;}
rt
{color:windowtext;
font-size:6.0pt;
font-weight:400;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none;
font-family:游ゴシック;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-charset:128;
mso-char-type:katakana;
display:none;}
-->
a | b
-- | --
1 | 2
```
**Expected behavior**
When I pasted the same excel table in Safari, it was formatted as Markdown style.
```
a | b
-- | --
1 | 2
```
**Screenshots**
Copy and paste table from Excel results in both raw HTML and Markdown. It depends on browser
Raw HTML in Chrome

Markdown in Safari
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