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YavapaiR
Oct 17, 2023Copper Contributor
Not able to paste bulk rows into SharePoint list online from Excel
Hi guys, Looks like some changes were made in MSFT end and the way to work with SharePoint lists has changed. I was able to copy up to 100 rows from Excel and paste them into SharePoint li...
luis-ribeiro
Oct 17, 2023Brass Contributor
Hi YavapaiR
I don't have any details about if there is an issue currently but I believe you can save some time on the "even when I take a lot of time scrolling down to the last row to find the '+' icon" step by creating an empty view to insert the data.
Steps:
- Create a new view. Ex: "Bulk Insert"
- Select "Edit in grid view" and save the view
- Go to list settings > edit the new view
- Add a filter like "ID = 0" (a condition that will never be true)
Now you have a view that you can quickly select to add data in quick edit mode. Everytime you switch to the view, it will be empty and ready to use.
YavapaiR
Oct 18, 2023Copper Contributor
Thanks for the suggested approach, good one! However, it doesn't solve the fact that we can't paste more than one row at a time from Excel to the SP list, whereas we were able to paste 100 at a time, I would like to know if this is happening only on my end or if it's something rolled out by MSFT ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- wmGomezjrNov 21, 2023Copper Contributor
If you use the classic experience you are able to past multiple rows.
- andymxOct 23, 2023Copper ContributorI am having this same problem. Was able to paste many rows just last week, now I am unable to bulk paste. MS team constantly removing basic features like copy and paste is actually embarrassing and I hope they have a quick fix for this.
- YavapaiROct 27, 2023Copper ContributorI ended up creating a flow that will upload the rows for me, with the limitation of getting error when I try to upload 100+ rows.
- ananto123Nov 13, 2023Copper ContributorI found that I could do this but it was fiddly. The first paste would put everything into the first column cell delimited with spaces. So I deleted and moved the cursor to the next column cell and then back to the first and was able to paste all rows.