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Qrew Cadet

8 years ago

Is there any way to copy data from an Excel file and paste it in the Grid Edit report?

I am attempting to copy data from an Excel file and past it into the Grid Edit report. I know you can manually click each field and edit data in the grid edit, but I thought at one point, you could pa...

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QuickBaseCoachD

Qrew Captain

8 years ago

.... actually, I think that you can copy and paste from excel into Grid edit. I just spend an hour a couple of days ago coaxing data into an app for a client.

The trick is that Excel is from Microsoft. And IE or whatever they call their Browser these days is from Microsoft. those two play nice together. So you can copy and paste from Excel into Grid Edit in Internet Explorer browser.

GauravSharma3
Qrew Commander
7 years ago
Excellent Mark. I never think about it.
RubyKapil2
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
Have you tried it on WIndows 10, it is clunky and doesn't seem to paste. I got it work first time but after that it, it will bring up message to allow access to Clipboard, then when I select paste, nothing happens.
QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
I won�t have access to a Windows pc until next week.
DineshDinesh
Qrew Cadet
7 years ago
It works perfectly fine in IE 11 browser but not in Chrome or IE Edge browsers.