The Verify Paste dialog box is a useful tool for double-checking the paste operation. The dialog box always stays "on top" of the display so you can use the scrollbars to see how all parts of the scorecard were effected before accepting the paste.
Below is a list of the various components that can be found in the Verify Paste dialog box:
- Size: the size of the paste area as measured by columns and rows.
- Red "X": the number of cells that cannot be pasted. This information is only visible if there are cells that cannot be pasted.
- White check mark: the number of cells that remained unchanged.
- Green check mark: the number of cells that were pasted successfully with no adjustment.
- Yellow check mark: the number of cells that were pasted successfully with automatic adjustment.
- Enable paste without red cells: checking this checkbox enables the Accept button. All the green and yellow cells will accept the new values; the red cells will revert to the old values.
There are three action buttons:
- Report: generates a full report that can be filtered to view the paste results. For more details about the report, refer to Paste Preview Report.
- Accept (disabled): The Accept button is disabled until the Enable paste without red cells checkbox is checked. When you decide to Accept the paste, the information in the green and yellow cells replaces the original cell contents. The red cells keep the original (pre-paste) contents as, by definition, the new data cannot be pasted.
- Reject (the default): The Reject button is useful if there is some mistake in the location or content of the paste. All the cells will revert to the old values. You can correct the location and/or content as necessary and paste again.
Note: The Verify Paste dialog box stays "on top" of the display. Once you verify the paste anchoring point ("top left") was correct and that the pasted information matches the cell definitions, click Accept. All the green and yellow cells will accept the new values; the red cells will revert to the old values.