 How To Use Copy Options In Data View

There are several useful options for copying data in the Data View. These include:

• Irregular copy: Selecting various non-contagious cells to copy as a group
• Copy to file: copying cells that are written to a new file
• Line and header copies: copying whole sets of cells by header or line
• Copy raw: copying the characters underlying a CSV

How to do it

• Open FlightPath
• Navigate to your project’s examples/schemas folder
• Open shipping.csv

Irregular copy

• Holding the control key, click any pattern of cells. (Use the command key on MacOS)
• Hit ctrl-c to copy
• Hit ctrl-v to paste

Copy to new file

• Select some set of cells
• Right-click and select Copy to new file
• Give the new file a name in the dialog that opens

Line and header copies

• Select the Y-axis header name or X-axis line number or both
• Move to a target cell
• Hit ctrl-v to paste

Copy raw

• Click the Toggle raw button in the Data Toolbar

• Copy and paste data using ctrl-c and ctrl-v