Thursday, 29 August 2019

interface - Copy, not export, a table from Arcmap


How can I copy a table, or selection of rows or columns in a table, from Arcmap without going through the pointy-clicky-typey exercise of Export table? The destination of said copy could be anything: notepad, excel, word, whatever.


The existing context menu only allows copying the value for a single cell and using the keyboard [Ctrl-C] also just copies a single cell value:


context menu expanded to showing copy cell value


I'm using Arcmap 10.1, but this has been annoying for years, so don't feel the need to restrict your answer to a particular version.



Answer



Your screen capture shows nicely how to copy current cell value to the clipboard. To copy selected records, right-click on the left-most gray button (where the 'triangle' is shown in your screen capture) and choose Copy Selected. Note: keyboard shortcut for both is Ctrl + Shift + C.


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