Duplicate Table to Different Base

I WIN! NOT YOU (code/software/etc), ME! I WIN! IT’S ALL I DO!!!

Please forgive my exuberance, it’s how I celebrate after hours of toiling away trying to get something to work. This seems simple enough, but after avoiding figuring this out for months I finally decided to give it a go on a Saturday morning. Just spent another 2 hours completely perplexed, much like @Jarret_Cassaniti above.

For anyone still struggling to figure this out, here is the workflow at last!

1. Go to the table you want to copy and select “Grid View”.


2. Remove any Group filters you have in place so you see all of the data in list like a traditional spreadsheet.


3. Click anywhere on the Table. It doesn’t matter if you click a Column, click into a Cell, or in the gray space off to the side.


4. Press Command+A (Mac) or Windows+A (PC) on your keyboard. All of the columns and rows are now a highlighted light blue.


5. Press Command+C (Mac) or Windows+C (PC) on your keyboard. You have now copied all of the rows AND the structured data for each column.


6. Click the Airtable “Go home” logo at the top left of your screen.


7. Click the base where you want to duplicate the table.


8. Click the “(+)” plus sign icon next to “SHARE” at the top-right of the first Table you see in the Base.


9. Select “Create empty table”.


10. Give your Table a name or press Enter to use the generic Table name assigned by Airtable.


11. Right-click the Attachments column and select “Delete field” at the bottom list.


12. Right-click the Notes column and select “Delete field” at the bottom of the list… You are now only left with the Name column and three rows.


13. Click the checkbox next to each of the three rows.


14. Right-click and select “Delete all selected records”.


15. Click the (+) plus sign to add a new row. You will now see the blinking | line icon indicating you can now add information to the cell.


16. Press Command+V (Mac) or Windows+V (PC) on your keyboard.


17. Cry tears of joy because you now know how to fully duplicate a table in a different base!

Only deleting the columns didn’t do the trick for me, but h/t to @James_Samuel for that advice. Once I deleted all columns AND rows, it worked like a charm.

Hope this helps save at least one poor soul from the torture of having to piecing this together without step-by-step instructions. Airtable, if you’re listening, please add this to your documentation!

Cheers y’all!

James

You can actually already do this by pressing Cmd+A, Cmd+C to select and copy all cells, respectively, then Cmd+V to paste into a new table (even in a different Base). Replace Cmd with Ctrl if you’re on Windows.

Hi @Howie_Liu, if I copy and paste the cells into a new base, will it automatically link the cells so both bases are updated with new information added/edited/deleted?

Hi @Hannah_Garza - unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. Copying creates a new copy and they are not linked when you copy to a new base. If you copy within a single base (i.e. between tables) then it will keep the linked relationship. But not between bases.

Hi Howie, thanks for your response! So if I’m wanting to use the same data in one base and all the updates that will occur there, how can I create a new base and/or table with that copy the same linked information?

Hi Hannah - you can’t That is the #1 requested feature.

btw - I’m not Howie. Howie is the CEO of Airtable. I figured he’s pretty busy these days so thought I’d jump in to answer

Hi, I’m using this thread because the request can be related: if we have two identical tables, it would be nice to have a feature (a block maybe?) that keeps them synchronized.

What do you think?

I WIN! NOT YOU (code/software/etc), ME! I WIN! IT’S ALL I DO!!!

Please forgive my exuberance, it’s how I celebrate after hours of toiling away trying to get something to work. This seems simple enough, but after avoiding figuring this out for months I finally decided to give it a go on a Saturday morning. Just spent another 2 hours completely perplexed, much like @Jarret_Cassaniti above.

For anyone still struggling to figure this out, here is the workflow at last!

1. Go to the table you want to copy and select “Grid View”.


2. Remove any Group filters you have in place so you see all of the data in list like a traditional spreadsheet.


3. Click anywhere on the Table. It doesn’t matter if you click a Column, click into a Cell, or in the gray space off to the side.


4. Press Command+A (Mac) or Windows+A (PC) on your keyboard. All of the columns and rows are now a highlighted light blue.


5. Press Command+C (Mac) or Windows+C (PC) on your keyboard. You have now copied all of the rows AND the structured data for each column.


6. Click the Airtable “Go home” logo at the top left of your screen.


7. Click the base where you want to duplicate the table.


8. Click the “(+)” plus sign icon next to “SHARE” at the top-right of the first Table you see in the Base.


9. Select “Create empty table”.


10. Give your Table a name or press Enter to use the generic Table name assigned by Airtable.


11. Right-click the Attachments column and select “Delete field” at the bottom list.


12. Right-click the Notes column and select “Delete field” at the bottom of the list… You are now only left with the Name column and three rows.


13. Click the checkbox next to each of the three rows.


14. Right-click and select “Delete all selected records”.


15. Click the (+) plus sign to add a new row. You will now see the blinking | line icon indicating you can now add information to the cell.


16. Press Command+V (Mac) or Windows+V (PC) on your keyboard.


17. Cry tears of joy because you now know how to fully duplicate a table in a different base!

Only deleting the columns didn’t do the trick for me, but h/t to @James_Samuel for that advice. Once I deleted all columns AND rows, it worked like a charm.

Hope this helps save at least one poor soul from the torture of having to piecing this together without step-by-step instructions. Airtable, if you’re listening, please add this to your documentation!

Cheers y’all!

James

I found this doesn’t work in Firefox (won’t copy the data structure) but will in Chrome.

I WIN! NOT YOU (code/software/etc), ME! I WIN! IT’S ALL I DO!!!

Please forgive my exuberance, it’s how I celebrate after hours of toiling away trying to get something to work. This seems simple enough, but after avoiding figuring this out for months I finally decided to give it a go on a Saturday morning. Just spent another 2 hours completely perplexed, much like @Jarret_Cassaniti above.

For anyone still struggling to figure this out, here is the workflow at last!

1. Go to the table you want to copy and select “Grid View”.


2. Remove any Group filters you have in place so you see all of the data in list like a traditional spreadsheet.


3. Click anywhere on the Table. It doesn’t matter if you click a Column, click into a Cell, or in the gray space off to the side.


4. Press Command+A (Mac) or Windows+A (PC) on your keyboard. All of the columns and rows are now a highlighted light blue.


5. Press Command+C (Mac) or Windows+C (PC) on your keyboard. You have now copied all of the rows AND the structured data for each column.


6. Click the Airtable “Go home” logo at the top left of your screen.


7. Click the base where you want to duplicate the table.


8. Click the “(+)” plus sign icon next to “SHARE” at the top-right of the first Table you see in the Base.


9. Select “Create empty table”.


10. Give your Table a name or press Enter to use the generic Table name assigned by Airtable.


11. Right-click the Attachments column and select “Delete field” at the bottom list.


12. Right-click the Notes column and select “Delete field” at the bottom of the list… You are now only left with the Name column and three rows.


13. Click the checkbox next to each of the three rows.


14. Right-click and select “Delete all selected records”.


15. Click the (+) plus sign to add a new row. You will now see the blinking | line icon indicating you can now add information to the cell.


16. Press Command+V (Mac) or Windows+V (PC) on your keyboard.


17. Cry tears of joy because you now know how to fully duplicate a table in a different base!

Only deleting the columns didn’t do the trick for me, but h/t to @James_Samuel for that advice. Once I deleted all columns AND rows, it worked like a charm.

Hope this helps save at least one poor soul from the torture of having to piecing this together without step-by-step instructions. Airtable, if you’re listening, please add this to your documentation!

Cheers y’all!

James

I WIN! NOT YOU (code/software/etc), ME! I WIN! IT’S ALL I DO!!!

Please forgive my exuberance, it’s how I celebrate after hours of toiling away trying to get something to work. This seems simple enough, but after avoiding figuring this out for months I finally decided to give it a go on a Saturday morning. Just spent another 2 hours completely perplexed, much like @Jarret_Cassaniti above.

For anyone still struggling to figure this out, here is the workflow at last!

1. Go to the table you want to copy and select “Grid View”.


2. Remove any Group filters you have in place so you see all of the data in list like a traditional spreadsheet.


3. Click anywhere on the Table. It doesn’t matter if you click a Column, click into a Cell, or in the gray space off to the side.


4. Press Command+A (Mac) or Windows+A (PC) on your keyboard. All of the columns and rows are now a highlighted light blue.


5. Press Command+C (Mac) or Windows+C (PC) on your keyboard. You have now copied all of the rows AND the structured data for each column.


6. Click the Airtable “Go home” logo at the top left of your screen.


7. Click the base where you want to duplicate the table.


8. Click the “(+)” plus sign icon next to “SHARE” at the top-right of the first Table you see in the Base.


9. Select “Create empty table”.


10. Give your Table a name or press Enter to use the generic Table name assigned by Airtable.


11. Right-click the Attachments column and select “Delete field” at the bottom list.


12. Right-click the Notes column and select “Delete field” at the bottom of the list… You are now only left with the Name column and three rows.


13. Click the checkbox next to each of the three rows.


14. Right-click and select “Delete all selected records”.


15. Click the (+) plus sign to add a new row. You will now see the blinking | line icon indicating you can now add information to the cell.


16. Press Command+V (Mac) or Windows+V (PC) on your keyboard.


17. Cry tears of joy because you now know how to fully duplicate a table in a different base!

Only deleting the columns didn’t do the trick for me, but h/t to @James_Samuel for that advice. Once I deleted all columns AND rows, it worked like a charm.

Hope this helps save at least one poor soul from the torture of having to piecing this together without step-by-step instructions. Airtable, if you’re listening, please add this to your documentation!

Cheers y’all!

James

I WIN! NOT YOU (code/software/etc), ME! I WIN! IT’S ALL I DO!!!

Please forgive my exuberance, it’s how I celebrate after hours of toiling away trying to get something to work. This seems simple enough, but after avoiding figuring this out for months I finally decided to give it a go on a Saturday morning. Just spent another 2 hours completely perplexed, much like @Jarret_Cassaniti above.

For anyone still struggling to figure this out, here is the workflow at last!

1. Go to the table you want to copy and select “Grid View”.


2. Remove any Group filters you have in place so you see all of the data in list like a traditional spreadsheet.


3. Click anywhere on the Table. It doesn’t matter if you click a Column, click into a Cell, or in the gray space off to the side.


4. Press Command+A (Mac) or Windows+A (PC) on your keyboard. All of the columns and rows are now a highlighted light blue.


5. Press Command+C (Mac) or Windows+C (PC) on your keyboard. You have now copied all of the rows AND the structured data for each column.


6. Click the Airtable “Go home” logo at the top left of your screen.


7. Click the base where you want to duplicate the table.


8. Click the “(+)” plus sign icon next to “SHARE” at the top-right of the first Table you see in the Base.


9. Select “Create empty table”.


10. Give your Table a name or press Enter to use the generic Table name assigned by Airtable.


11. Right-click the Attachments column and select “Delete field” at the bottom list.


12. Right-click the Notes column and select “Delete field” at the bottom of the list… You are now only left with the Name column and three rows.


13. Click the checkbox next to each of the three rows.


14. Right-click and select “Delete all selected records”.


15. Click the (+) plus sign to add a new row. You will now see the blinking | line icon indicating you can now add information to the cell.


16. Press Command+V (Mac) or Windows+V (PC) on your keyboard.


17. Cry tears of joy because you now know how to fully duplicate a table in a different base!

Only deleting the columns didn’t do the trick for me, but h/t to @James_Samuel for that advice. Once I deleted all columns AND rows, it worked like a charm.

Hope this helps save at least one poor soul from the torture of having to piecing this together without step-by-step instructions. Airtable, if you’re listening, please add this to your documentation!

Cheers y’all!

James

Hi Everyone,

I’ve tried everything, and… it does not work !

• Deleting all the cell, columns and rows


• Deleting other table


• Using Chrome

I still have the message about expanding the cells, and it always only copy the content and not the structure.

Anyone has an idea of what to do ?

Thanks,