[GH-ISSUE #4938] [FR] Copy-pasting spreadsheet cells into a grid page without needing to copy every cell one-by-one #2198

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Originally created by @Wonderien on GitHub (Mar 19, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/4938

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When I want to quickly copy and paste a bunch of cells from a spreadsheet, it pastes them all into 1 cell.
Instead of copying the data into the numerous various cells from the original spreadsheet.

Would save a ton of time if we could just copy and paste the cells into a grid on AppFlowy.

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Makes work go faster.

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Originally created by @Wonderien on GitHub (Mar 19, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/4938 ### Description When I want to quickly copy and paste a bunch of cells from a spreadsheet, it pastes them all into 1 cell. Instead of copying the data into the numerous various cells from the original spreadsheet. Would save a ton of time if we could just copy and paste the cells into a grid on AppFlowy. ### Impact Makes work go faster. ### Additional Context _No response_

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@rockerest commented on GitHub (Apr 17, 2025):

This would be a huge benefit to me.

I run AppFlowy-Cloud locally, and I've never been able to successfully import Notion into AppFlowy.

I've resorted to manually moving pages from Notion into AppFlowy, but it's unbelievably tedious that I can't copy an entire spreadsheet into a Grid. I'm not even trying to move from Notion any more, I've fully exported it to CSV, so it's very simplified data.

Unfortunately, copying even a single row from the CSV is just dumped into a single cell, so it's carpal tunnel-inducing work to copy every table cell-by-cell. This is true of either the raw CSV text or the "imported" CSV copied out of an Excel row.

(As an aside/separate issue: I should be able to multi-select the cells to paste into, and - even if importing a spreadsheet/CSV doesn't work - selecting multiple grid cells and then pasting should be a strong signal that the data should be split in some way. Only being able to select a single cell at a time is perhaps the root issue here, since there's no indicator that I'm about to paste in tabular data. Ultimately, I do think I should be able to paste copied spreadsheet rows or CSV text and AppFlowy is smart enough to expand it across a grid, but I should also be able to multi-select across cells, if only to copy the content out.)

@rockerest commented on GitHub (Apr 17, 2025): This would be a huge benefit to me. I run AppFlowy-Cloud locally, and I've never been able to successfully import Notion into AppFlowy. I've resorted to manually moving pages from Notion into AppFlowy, but it's _unbelievably_ tedious that I can't copy an entire spreadsheet into a Grid. I'm not even trying to move from Notion any more, I've fully exported it to CSV, so it's very simplified data. Unfortunately, copying even a single row from the CSV is just dumped into a single cell, so it's carpal tunnel-inducing work to copy every table cell-by-cell. This is true of either the raw CSV text or the "imported" CSV copied out of an Excel row. (As an aside/separate issue: I should be able to multi-select the cells to paste into, and - even if importing a spreadsheet/CSV doesn't work - selecting multiple grid cells and then pasting should be a strong signal that the data should be split in some way. Only being able to select a single cell at a time is perhaps the root issue here, since there's no indicator that I'm about to paste in tabular data. Ultimately, I do think I should be able to paste copied spreadsheet rows or CSV text and AppFlowy is smart enough to expand it across a grid, but I should *also* be able to multi-select across cells, if only to copy the content out.)