Let’s say I have 10 lines of simple text in an external application (e.g. a simple text editor) and I want to paste them in a table in Writer, with each line a row (it’s ok in just the first column).
How to do it? If I simply paste them, Writer will repeat the 10 lines in each row!
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This is not ideal, but it should work.
If you don’t have the table yet, simply paste the text into the document. The Select the text, go to the Table menu and select Convert… text to table. Select “Paragraph” as a delimiter, spec enough rows to handle your text, click OK. You should have a one-column table with each line in its own row. Now you can add columns to the table if needed.
If your table already exists, you can do the above, the Copy the column and paste it into the desired table. LO should recognize the row designations. Delete the utility table.
If this is an answer please designate it as such so others can find it easily.
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This worked for me, at least. I would, e.g., copy a matrix of cells from Calc into a text editor, then copy that raw text into Writer and proceed to follow paul1149’s steps from there.
Also worked for me. Thanks.
This definitely works !
Thank you, Paul, this is just the perfect solution…
A NOTE: for delimiter, if it is just lines above one another, use “paragraph”, which is actually he default 
Such a simple solution! Just a copy-paste…!! ,
Libreoffice is indeed intelligent!!!
We just have to create a table with sufficient number of rows…
PERFECT…
thanks
Right click → Paste special → Unformatted Text
Does not works. Copy 5 lines from plain text and special paste clicking on one cell but paste all into single one cell, when select 5 cells and paste without format paste 5 lines in each cell x’D