Re: AppleScript workaround for Numbers 11 copy-paste limitation
Re: AppleScript workaround for Numbers 11 copy-paste limitation
- Subject: Re: AppleScript workaround for Numbers 11 copy-paste limitation
- From: Tom Robinson via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:52:22 +1200
I’m running Numbers 11.1 under Big Sur 11.4 and can right-click a tab to copy a
sheet. Can’t select multiple sheets though.
Can you duplicate the file, then delete the sheets you don’t want?
> On 2021-06-22, at 06:04, Barry Fass-Holmes via AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Catalina 10.15.7
> Numbers 11.1
>
> My goal is to copy-paste multiple worksheets/tabs from an existing Numbers
> file to another brand-new one. I need to do this almost daily.
>
> In Numbers ’09, I could shift-click multiple worksheets/tabs, press
> command-c, open a brand-new file, then press command-v and the multiple
> worksheets pasted.
>
> In Numbers 11.1, when I click a worksheet/tab, Edit>Copy is dimmed!
>
> If accomplishing my goal will require copy-pasting individual tables from
> multiple worksheets/tabs, this process will be too inefficient. I’d need a
> workaround.
>
> Before I resort to using Excel (which also has inefficiencies, just different
> ones), is my goal achievable with AppleScript? If so, how?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Barry
>
> P.S. I’ve already submitted feedback to Apple’s Numbers team about the above
> limitation.
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