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Danying
Danying
Level II

how to paste empty cell as empty cell

Created: Oct 20, 2022 04:07 AM  |  Last Modified: Jun 10, 2023 4:55 PM (1466 views)

Hi, I want to copy a column with some empty cells and numbers to another new column. But when I pasted it, the empty cells are turn into 0. I cannot delete it one by one because there are many of them. How can I keep the pasted empty cell as it was? Thank you

 

 

 

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Craige_Hales
Super User Craige_Hales
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Re: how to paste empty cell as empty cell

Oct 20, 2022 07:36 AM (1449 views)  |  Posted in reply to message from Danying 10-20-2022

It should not do that. We'll probably need more information (unless someone has seen this before!)

 

JMP version?

Win or Mac?

What sequence of clicking/copying/pasting are you using? Mouse? Keyboard?

 

I'd normally do this by selecting entire columns using the headers, then right-click in the selected data (not the header) ->Copy.

Then repeat for the destination (with same number of rows)...select headers, right-click ->Paste.

Craige
jthi
Super User jthi
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Re: how to paste empty cell as empty cell

Oct 20, 2022 07:46 AM (1448 views)  |  Posted in reply to message from Craige_Hales 10-20-2022

Also are there any column properties? Column properties such as Value Labels could possibly cause something like this to happen (have 0 be recoded to . in the column being copied).

-Jarmo
Danying
Danying
Level II

Re: how to paste empty cell as empty cell

Oct 28, 2022 03:14 AM (1412 views)  |  Posted in reply to message from jthi 10-20-2022

Thank you for your reply, jthi.

The data type is "Numeric" and the modeling type is "Continuous". The problem is tentatively solved as I tried again on the other day and I can copy and paste the column exactly what they are. I must miss something that day.

 

Anyway I still appreciate your reply, hope you have a good day:)

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Danying
Danying
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Re: how to paste empty cell as empty cell

Oct 28, 2022 03:07 AM (1412 views)  |  Posted in reply to message from Craige_Hales 10-20-2022

Thank you Craige.

It is JMP version 15.1.0 on Win 10.

I used mouse.

I created a new column with the "Numeric" data type and "Continuous" modeling type. Then I copied the column (with the same column properties) by selecting the whole column and clicking the "Edit"-"Copy with column names". Next I left clicked the new column head to select the column and pasted by choosing "Edit"-"Paste with column names". 

 

I think the problem is tentatively solved because I tried to do it again on the other day and now I can copy and paste the column exactly what they are. I must miss something that day. The original data was copy-paste from the results of the formulated cells in the excel. I don't know whether the formular in the excel would have an influence on this.

 

Thanks again for your reply!