Ctrl-V versus Ctrl-Shift-V according Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/5639828/google-chrome-n...s-built+in-text-stripping is supposed to strip the text attributes during pasting. Does nothing on my Excel [no pasting at all, not in their manual but for Ctrl-V/Ctrl-Alt-V, to bring up the paste special manual]. Works fine in Wordpad though.

Trick for Firefox is [did this Ctrl-Shft-V change happen upgrading to 18.01 that came out as a security fix release last week?]. Hold the Ctrl Key, then with mouse select single column or multiple columns of data.

Querying with Excel from WCG stats pages I've been doing for a long time [all the stats graphs build on them], but the setup I do quite different to jonnieb, via the Data menu selecting "From Web", pasting the address from the browser, update [Go], then pick the areas that I wish to fetch/refresh each time running the query update macro [selected yellow arrows turn green]. Convenient, no messing with xml, csv, or anything.