Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells
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~~I don't seem to be able to do it and I can't remember if this used to work before.~~

	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	VisualEditor/VisualEditor	master	+352 -81	Tables: Multi-cell copy and paste

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Esanders	T108245 Fully support basic table editing in the visual editor
		Resolved		Esanders	T85791 Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells

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You can do this, but you have to select either side of it to work. Copying sub-parts of tables doesn't, however, so re-purposing this.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Allow copy/pasting of tables to Allow copy/pasting of arbitrary selections of table cells.Jan 5 2015, 12:36 PM

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I'm testing on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_British-Americans . I don't manage to copy/paste the table in Safari, but it seems to work in Opera. Results may vary though.

Will right-clicking on the table to copy it ever work?

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Change 265660 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
Multi-cell table copy and paste

(Ed, I don't understand your edit to the description.)

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