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For the past year this has worked flawlessly:
* copy rows from excel spreadsheet
* paste those rows into my premade Paper table (current selected cell becomes point for creating new rows)
Now it no longer works. When I copy the data from excel and paste it into paper, all the data goes into a single cell (the one currently selected). Has something changed? Or is my paper table possibly corrupted?
I do not need formulas or any excel features, just the text data (its a csv file I download daily from my online orders).
EDIT:
I discovered if I copy directly from the excel spreadsheet it will paste properly into the paper table (un-numbered).
The way I USED to be able to do this is open the excel file from WITHIN dropbox, copy the data (including the numbers that excel adds on the left) and then paste it into the table. I really liked doing it this way because then the pasted lines are numbered. However that is what no longer works, it will all paste into a single cell without the numbers, not even the commas appear.
CTRL-C / CTRL-V (copy/paste)
Like I mentioned .. I have been doing this for almost a year. Once in awhile it would paste all the data into the first cell so I would go back and copy it again and it would work. Now it does it every time.
"can you try ctrl+shift+V instead and vice versa?"
I'll try this today, thanks.
When I did ctrl+shift+V it did paste with the numbers included (unlike before), however its still all in one cell.
The way I am doing this in the meantime is I copy it from within excel, paste everything into the 2nd column, then manually add the numbers to the first column one at a time. A bit inconvenient but it's all I can do.
Thanks for testing this out for me and sorry to hear there's still an issue, Karen.
I can see that an expert of our team has sent you an email to help the investigation, so I'd recommend taking this from there as they'll be able to assist further at this point.
Let me know if you have anything else to add or ask in the meantime.
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The issue has been resolved. Dropbox support was able to duplicate the issue and fixed it on their end. Excellent customer support! A++
I'm glad to hear that they were able to locate and resolve the issue.
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