# Copying a multi-cell selection in a Table View only copies one cell to system text-format clipboard

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/copying-a-multi-cell-selection-in-a-table-view-only-copies-one-cell-to-system-text-format-clipboard/3017>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/copying-a-multi-cell-selection-in-a-table-view-only-copies-one-cell-to-system-text-format-clipboard/3017 "2022-06-30T15:31:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/copying-a-multi-cell-selection-in-a-table-view-only-copies-one-cell-to-system-text-format-clipboard/3017/1 "2022-06-30T15:31:28Z")

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When there is a multi-cell selection in a Table View, and I hit `Ctrl + C`, only one cell gets copied to the system “text” format clipboard’s (i.e., if you paste the clipboard contents in an app that expects plain-text, you only get the text from a single cell).

Ideally all selected cells would be added to the text clipboard, with columns `TAB`-separated, and rows separated by literal newlines, and embedded newlines converted to “\n”.

For the system’s html-format clipboard, it would be great to actually have an HTML `<table>`.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/copying-a-multi-cell-selection-in-a-table-view-only-copies-one-cell-to-system-text-format-clipboard/3017/2 "2022-06-30T15:43:58Z")

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I can’t reproduce this - I get all cells copied over.  
Or did I miss something?

![chrome_gPQslss4iB](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/0/00f09c6b40f76f5c9dc1a7efb1f22c662e349e6a.gif)

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/copying-a-multi-cell-selection-in-a-table-view-only-copies-one-cell-to-system-text-format-clipboard/3017/3 "2022-06-30T15:46:41Z")

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Weird… it’s working for me now too 🤷‍♀️