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Copy > Paste Table within text box — only carries over text

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    • October 18, 2019 at 10:06 am #1192023
      Anonymous
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      Previously, in InDesign CC 2018, selecting a table and copy > pasting it would result in another table with the same information in it. This was very useful when flowing text and tables across multiple pages. Upgrading to InDesign CC 2019 and following the same steps now results in the text being pasted in raw, not as a table. The newly pasted text is tabbed as if separating out columns, and contains separate lines for each row that was copied.

      Is there a way to copy > paste tables like before? Currently running InDesign 14.0.3, Mojave 10.14.6.

      Thanks!

    • October 21, 2019 at 9:53 am #14323889
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Found a workaround (sort of):

      InDesign now treats a copy > paste as a character dump, but doesn’t preserve the fact that it’s in a table. Copying a table and opening the clipboard shows it’s being copied as a table correctly, but InDesign doesn’t like it being put back inline that way. The trick is now to select the table and go up to the menu and “Edit > Duplicate”. This makes a duplicate table, although it makes it directly after the table you’re trying to duplicate. Still not able to directly duplicate a table from page 3 to page 7, but it’s something at least.

    • October 21, 2019 at 2:44 pm #14323888
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      After contacting multiple people to have them try it out, including Adobe Support, this looks like a “feature” that was removed in CC2019. Removed with no option to turn it back on.

      Copy and Paste. Was a feature. That was removed.

    • October 21, 2019 at 6:32 pm #14323887
      Kelly Vaughn
      Participant

      What if you tried exporting the table as a snippet, and then placing that into your second document?

    • October 21, 2019 at 11:08 pm #14323886
      Gert Verrept
      Member

      No problems on a win 7 machine with CC2019 (14.03) Copy paste table gives me the exact same table, on the same page or on another page, as standalone or copied in another text frame.

    • October 22, 2019 at 5:26 am #14323885
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I can copy and paste a formatted table (with table formatting and text formatting) with no problem in CC 2019. I wonder what else could be going on? Maybe reset preferences?

    • October 22, 2019 at 10:00 am #14323884
      Gert Verrept
      Member

      Did you check in the preferences of INDD the settings of the clipboard handling? Make sure “all info” is checked.

    • October 23, 2019 at 7:07 am #14323883
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      “Did you check in the preferences of INDD the settings of the clipboard handling? Make sure “all info” is checked.”

      SOLVED.

      I had completely overlooked this setting and don’t know how it was checked to “text only” by default (even after a Preferences reset, as David suggested). I apologize for being salty, but I was watching one of my key workflow tools essentially get taken away, and Adobe’s help was basically ¯(?)_/¯. I would have had to crank out jobs with a ton more effort, when Clients were just getting used to the speed I was able to do them at. Thank you!

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