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I see lots of information sating you can't copy a column from one sheet to another. I want to make duplicates of a column WITHIN the same sheet. Is this possible?
The reason is that I have a long dropdown list and some cell (not row) conditional formatting in a column which will be the same for all 7 columns and this would save me having to create 7 times.
I may be approaching the whole thing poorly so all advice is welcome
Just add a new column and copy and paste the cell data and predetermined column values to the new row. You can also duplicate conditional formatting rules, just change the column they are looking to.
I was looking to do a similar task, and I ended up creating a new column and entering
=([Original_Column]1)
into the first cell, extend the formula all the way down the sheet and you should end up with a duplicated column, which will also automatically update as you add new rows.
I believe you have missed the point of the request.
An example of what we are looking for:
I have a column named "Date 1" and it is Date type column.I make it blue background.
I want to create 6 more columns that are Date columns with a blue background, in effect "cloning" the column.
I do this now with the API - from a command line I enter sheet ID, column ID, and how many instances I want. It would be nice if the tool would do this for us.
I have had a request from a team member, would also like to duplicate - the Comments column - so that different members of the process only need to see comments about their process.
Vote "Yes" for this feature -I ran into this issue today creating a training matrix. All of my columns use the same drop down list. There was not easy way to copy the column properties and I had to repeat this task 50+ times.
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