Manual Copy and Paste of rows fails to paste formulas and hierarchy

Mike Wilday
Mike Wilday ✭✭✭✭✭✭
edited 12/09/19 in Formulas and Functions

About 3 weeks ago I began being unable to copy and paste multiple rows between sheets in smartsheet. I have about 12 rows with several columns that match columns in a separate sheet. I am trying to copy rows from one sheet manually using CMD+C and CMD+V (I am on a mac) and paste them into the new sheet. 

I am able to select multiple rows using the row indicators and holding down shift. But when I navigate to a new sheet I am unable to paste those rows.  If I click on a row indicator to paste the rows into a specific location CMD+V does nothing. If I right click on the row indicator Paste is not an option. If I click on a cell in the row I am able to paste the data but all of the formatting and hierarchy and formulas are removed from the pasted data. 

Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Please help I need to reorganize all of our sheets. 

Comments

  • L_123
    L_123 ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    I am also having this issue and have spent about a dozen hours working on rebuilding sheets because of it. 

     

    I ran out of other sheet references on my analysis sheet and had to recreate it across 4 different sheets. given that each is 500 rows and contain some rather complicated formulas I spent a lot of my time building it, and this would have been much easier had I been able to copy and paste the rows.

     

    If I use the option "Copy to" another sheet, it doesn't take the formulas, which is basically useless to me. I've already finished building them, but it was a painful waste of my time.

  • Mike Wilday
    Mike Wilday ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    The copy/paste behavior is being totally erratic. Sometimes copying and pasting more than 5-6 rows behaves like the copy-to another sheet option and strips all the formulas, and sometimes it doesn't. There isn't a clear solution. 

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