Archive for March, 2010

Multiple Cell Copy and Paste

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

A big reason that everybody loves spreadsheets, is that you can manipulate many cells at once. Let’s say you entered an item for your online store, you got its name, price, spec, and all kinds of info. When you are entering the next item, you found that almost all fields are identical except for one. On a normal application or web form, there’s no choice but to enter it again, or maybe you can make it slightly quicker by selecting, copying, pasting each field on the screen.

But on spreadsheet it’s different. You can drag and select all the cells that you would like to copy, ctrl-c to copy, and paste the whole thing to the next row in one click. It’s things like this that makes a lot of business user reluctant to leave spreadsheets to using database applications. We would like to change this, we would like to duplicated this type of great functionality to our database applications. This time, we added multiple cell copy paste to Ragic Builder.

Just drag and select a region of fields that you would like to copy, and you will see the background of the cells selected becomes red. Click ctrl-c for copy, and you’ve just copy the content of all the fields that you selected. You can paste them to a text editor, or back to Ragic Builder. We will automatically put each value that you copied to each field at the location you chose, just like spreadsheet.

Come try it! We believe a better user interface is one of the key to better adoption of enterprise software. That’s the key to getting the value out of your investment!