Paste

Fathom Reference > Fathom Menus > Edit Menu > Paste

The wording of this command changes to reflect what is on the clipboard and what you have selected. (For example, if you have copied a column of data in another program and selected a collection, the command will read Paste Attribute.)

This command puts the contents of the clipboard (whatever you have cut or copied) into the active document. To paste cases as cases or attributes as attributes in Fathom, you must have a collection or a case table selected. To paste a picture of a Fathom object, you cannot have any object selected in Fathom (click in a blank area first). To paste text, paste into a text object.

Pasting cases into a collection or case table pastes all of the attributes (and any formulas defining them) for the selected cases. If there are any same-named attributes in the collection before the paste, Fathom appends a 1 to the attribute name.

Pasting attributes pastes the attribute name and the case values into the selected collection or case table, but does not paste formulas. Any formula-derived values are pasted as noncomputed values.

If you have an image on the clipboard, and you select a case in an open collection, this command changes to Paste As Case Icon. The image will replace the current case image (by default, a gold ball). (This command won’t work if the image property has a formula; clear the formula before pasting an image as a case icon.)

Shortcut: Win: Ctrl+V; Mac: z+V