From what I know, excel does not have cell formats for images. So if you paste an image in a cell in excel, it’s not really stored in that cell, you can sort of move it around.
One workaround for you could be formatting the image column as “Image URL”. You can then paste a link of the image, and Coda will display the image.
If you copy this to excel or sheets, they will download the images from the URL, which should be close to what you want:
That’s cool.
I realize now that it’s not self evident what people want
For me, I wanted a list of filenames, but that’s for sure not universal… so maybe the way it is now is fine.
It still could fail more gracefully; have some sort of default more useful than nothing.