# New Table View: Broken Paste Rows UX **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs & Issues\ **Tags:** table-view\ **Created:** [December 14, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/new-table-view-broken-paste-rows-ux/5537 "2023-12-14T15:27:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rothnic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rothnic/32/1850_2.png) [@rothnic](https://community.fibery.io/u/rothnic)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/new-table-view-broken-paste-rows-ux/5537/1 "2023-12-14T15:27:20Z")
I commented on a feature release thread [here](https://community.fibery.io/t/nov-30-2023-some-table-view-improvements-and-bug-fixes/5481/9), but didn’t see anything about it getting picked up. See the thread for a video example of the issue. Overall, i think the airtable example is a good reference for a better UX. **Pasting Issues:** 1. Cumbersome to click and paste in the rows 2. When you get it to work, it overwrites one of the existing rows Here is a video of trying to get it to work: [fibery\_row\_pasting2.mov - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EEmqTW1eEJRpx7zUx5yOQeJz4msZoSNv/view?usp=sharing) **Video Summary:** - If you click into the “New ” box then paste, it assumes everything you are pasting goes into that one row (airtable detects this and confirms what you are trying to do) - To make it work, you seem to have to select (focus) the “New ” box without clicking into it? Is that the expected way to use this feature? - When you paste, it seems to overwrite the record just above - With airtable it seems to have a more simple UX. You click into a box, you paste. It recognizes what you are doing and confirms that is what you want to do. ---
**Author:** ![ihartrafimovich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ihartrafimovich/32/9_2.png) [@ihartrafimovich](https://community.fibery.io/u/ihartrafimovich)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/new-table-view-broken-paste-rows-ux/5537/2 "2024-01-03T13:14:32Z")
Hi! Thank you for noticing the issues. Honestly, I assumed that it’s expected that if the cell is in edit mode, paste will work in inline mode, and if the cell is just focused, paste will be _global_. I agree that Airtable introduced smarter and handier behavior, but they are a much more mature product. Google Sheets for instance, doesn’t work this way. Overwriting the last row is definitely a bug, and we will fix it soon. ---
**Author:** ![rothnic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rothnic/32/1850_2.png) [@rothnic](https://community.fibery.io/u/rothnic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/new-table-view-broken-paste-rows-ux/5537/3 "2024-01-03T21:31:52Z")
> [@ihartrafimovich](#): > > Honestly, I assumed that it’s expected that if the cell is in edit mode, paste will work in inline mode, and if the cell is just focused, paste will be _global_. I agree that Airtable introduced smarter and handier behavior, but they are a much more mature product. Google Sheets for instance, doesn’t work this way. Yeah, i understand the logic there, though I think there is a significant difference in the UX for google sheets vs fibery though. - **Fibery typically wouldn’t have an empty cell to focus and paste into** - Instead, you are clicking on a what appears to be a button that says “+ New ” - Hitting escape to focus the button IMO feels very different thing compared to pasting into an empty cell. - I don’t know if any other UX where you’d have to paste text into a focused button - **Sheets has the opposite behavior when clicking on the equivalent of a new row** - Clicking a cell focuses it - Double clicking puts it into edit mode - Fibery follows this behavior for existing cells, but not for the case where you are trying to paste completely new rows (as seen in my video) - **Sheets doesn’t just ignore the new-line characters** - If I go into edit mode in sheets by double clicking, then paste, i get a single cell with multiple rows - In fibery, the new line characters are just ignored - These new line characters I assume is what airtable is handling to say, hey I need to ask you want to intended, because there are multiple ways to interpret the data So, I just think Sheets is probably not the right comparison. That said, while the airtable UX example is a good one, I’m not sure fibery has to follow it exactly. An alternative approach could be to have a more explicit action or button to handle the pasting of rows. ---
**Author:** ![ihartrafimovich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ihartrafimovich/32/9_2.png) [@ihartrafimovich](https://community.fibery.io/u/ihartrafimovich)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/new-table-view-broken-paste-rows-ux/5537/4 "2024-01-04T17:09:11Z")
Thank you for highlighting the problem (as well as the problems in other topics), it’s hard for me to disagree with anything here. I cannot promise that it will be our first priority, but it will definitely help to choose the direction of the future improvements in the Grid (Table) View. ---
**Author:** ![Polina\_Zenevich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/polina_zenevich/32/480_2.png) [@Polina\_Zenevich](https://community.fibery.io/u/Polina_Zenevich)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/new-table-view-broken-paste-rows-ux/5537/5 "2024-01-15T14:14:00Z")
Hi! - To make it work, you seem to have to select (focus) the “New ” box without clicking into it? Is that the expected way to use this feature? - When you paste, it seems to overwrite the record just above That part was fixed 🙂