1. Working with Planning
  2. Working with Data in Forms
  3. Working in Forms 1.0
  4. Basics of Working With Data
  5. About Entering Data
  6. Copying and Pasting Data

Copying and Pasting Data

You can copy data within a form, from one form to another, or from another product, such as Microsoft Excel.

When you're in a form, copy and paste data by selecting the data, and then clicking Data, and then an icon under Edit.

See also Copying and Pasting Data Between Microsoft Excel and Your Business Process Forms.

About copying and pasting data:

  • When you copy within or among forms, the business process copies and pastes the cells' stored values, not the values that display based on the precision setting.

  • When pasting data to time periods, your business process applies the spreading rules for each cell in succession, starting from left to right and from top to bottom. The resulting data from a paste operation may not match the original copied data. Understand how values are spread before you paste them into time periods.

    See How Spreading Data Works.

  • Copying and pasting data from a text editor (for example, TextPad, Notepad, or WordPad) fails if the data is space-delimited. Use tab-delimited values instead.