Re: copy/paste data

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 03:50:36PM +0000, Caritas Centro Studi - Studienzentrum 
wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I just recently started to use PSPP, version GNU pspp 1.6.2-g78a33a, so I am 
> an absolute newcomer, just with some random experience with SPSS quite some 
> time ago.

Welcome.  You should however be aware, that 1.6.2 is extremely old.  There are 
a lot of unresulved bugs in that version.  It is also missing features which 
are present in the latest.
I recommend you upgrade to 2.0.1


> I checked some manuals, followed online tutorials and I managed to set up the 
> variables.
> Unfortunately importing my data from excel (as csv-file) doesn't work. Tried 
> it with different computers.

I think in 2.0.x it works fine.


> In addition I am having difficulties when inserting data manually: Copy/paste 
> values from excel (multiple cells) does not work properly.
> It worked for some columns, I figured it works when the left edge of the 
> targeted column is clicked on and a second dash appears. But since then no 
> success.
> Thanks for any advice!

Again, 2.0 might work better.  In general, however we don't recommend using 
Excel.  Convert your spreadsheets to libreoffice or gnumeric format and 
interoperability is much smoother.

> Also: is there an "undo"-feature? And a way to delete the content of more 
> than one cell?

There is no undo feature for most operations, because it would not scale.
Deleting multiple cells however should be no problem.

Regards,