How to paste into a Multi Select Dropdown Field

Mike White

Other tools allow you to paste into a multi-select field if you break the entries with commas or semicolons. I can't seem to get this to work in Smartsheet. Instead of selecting my options, it always creates a new entry with all options on one line.

Am I missing something, or is this feature not supported?

Thanks!

Andrée Starå

Hi Mike,

Unfortunately, as far as I know, it's not possible at the moment to paste and get the values separated, but it's an excellent idea!

Please submit an Enhancement Request when you have a moment

As a possible workaround, you could use something like JOIN COLLECT to get the values and then add them to the multi-select column.

Something like this.

=JOIN(COLLECT(ColumnA$1:ColumnC$1; ColumnA@row:ColumnC@row; @cell = 1); CHAR(10))

Would that work?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic weekend!

Best,

Andrée Starå

Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Paul Newcome

The delimiter for multi-select is CHAR(10) which is a line break. When those are used as your delimiter, you can use text wrapping to have it show as expected.

Evansrob

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/243762#Comment_243762

This is exactly correct and saved me a ton of headache. To create a line break in Excel (to paste into the Smartsheet cell):

1. Write your first value
2. Hold ALT and press Enter
3. Repeat as many times as you need

Paul Newcome

@Evansrob In Smartsheet I believe it is Ctrl+Enter to get the line break when manually typing.