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Sharepoint list - copy/paste rows with lookup column in Quick Edit / Grid View
I'm trying to copy/paste new rows into an existing SP list - the first column is a look-up column. I noticed a few changes to the list: It no longer shows 'Quick Edit View' - it now shows 'Edit ...
It is astonishing to me that there isn't a copy/paste way to add multiple values to a lookup column.
- Yes, another garbage Microsoft project. There are posts from 13 years ago complaining about this very issue, on discussion boards.
I've convinced clients to abandon it before, and on the project I'm on people talk about doing so constantly. John_Durbin - Yep. Same problem I am going through. There must fixed by Microsoft at the earliest possible. It is should accept the new row creation in quick edit in bulk copy-paste.
- Given that I see people talking about this from 2010, I doubt they will. This is an example of why I mostly recommend non-MS technologies to clients.
