Copy / paste table cells

[Craig Ede]

Be aware that pasting a straddled cell from your source will usually replace
multiple cells (equal to the number of the original straddling) in your
destination. That is, unless the straddle is pasted to the last cell in a
row, in which case it just replaces the last cell as an unstraddled cell (at
least in FM10 which is the version I have handy). 

 

I always thought FM has some pretty predictable cell pasting rules.
Sometimes the best thing to do is just create two small tables and then copy
and paste away to see what each type of copy/paste does
(straddled/unstraddled content, entire rows, entire columns, entire tables
pasted into the same sized table, etc.).  I attempted to write a description
of what the rules are but that has proven very difficult given the results I
am seeing. Creating a sample tables and trying things seems to be the most
instructive thing. It can produce some very interesting results when you
deal with straddles. Since you know how (at least) you destination table is
structured in terms of straddles, that may help you figure out what is
happening.

 

Here's are some oddities. If you straddle two cells in a table and then copy
that straddled cell to the clipboard, then paste that cell to the entire
body of a 5 cell wide table, the straddled cell replaces all the cells in
the first two columns and all the cells in the last two columns with copies
of itself. However, it leaves the center column as-is. That's unexpected
behavior in my book. 

 

If you do the same copy but paste by only highlighting the first 4 columns
of cells, a paste leave the first two columns straddled, the 3rd column
untouched and the 4th column unstraddled, but with the contents of the
straddled cells. (The 5th column, predictably, is untouched). 

 

Craig

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