How to Merge documents? (select all, cut and paste into second doc)

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#1

Hi,
I had been working on a document and have a few Rems created there. Today, I imported from Workflowy and have a longer document on the same topic from there. So, I’d like to merge both contents into a single document. In other words, I want to select all the Rems in my earlier document, cut and paste it into my imported document. How do I achieve that? (Select all Rems, copy and paste into another document is not working for me.)

Kind regards,
Brindha

#2

Actually it should just work like you described

  • Copy&Paste: Select (Ctrl + A or Shift + arrow up/down), Copy (Ctrl + C) or Cut (Ctrl + X) and Paste (Ctrl + V).

Here are two more methods you could try:

  • Merge: There is a dedicated merge function. Either use the slash command /merge or Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E. This puts all children of the current page into the selected page and deletes the current page.

  • Move: Select the Rems you want to move and press Ctrl + Shift + M. (This creates a portal to the target location at the old place which you can delete savely.)

#3

Thank you very much for your swift reply.

#4

Sadly, I seem to have further issues with copy paste.

  1. When I Ctrl + A against a rem, only that one rem gets selected. This I can copy and paste in another document with the code block intact. Pressing Ctrl+A twice selects all, but upon copying(Ctrl +C) it doesn’t paste anything into the new document. In the parent document, the status bar displays the number selected. But I am unable to Ctrl + V paste it in the destination document. I found that if I instead right click and select “Paste as plain text”, I’m able to paste the text now, but it doesn’t paste the code blocks properly.

    1a. Even this Ctrl + A twice to select all, doesn’t work in all documents. Even where does, it only selects upto the immediate outer indented list item, not the entire page contents.
    1b. I found Shift + down arrow from any outer intended list item selects all but it too exhibits the same behaviour as 1a.

  2. When I select the rems in a page and accidentally click anywhere else on the page outside the selected rems, I get a error page. The error message is " TypeError: Cannot read property ‘selectedRangePortal’ of undefined."

  3. While merge and move options work, there are instances when I want to create a backup version of my document with just copy and paste. Is there another way to create backup version? Is there a “save as” option?

Sorry for a longer reply. Many thanks for your help.
Brindha

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#5

Try opening the documents in different panes (shift click on bullet), selecting the rem with mouse drag, and moving them by grabbing one of the bullets to the other pane.

#6

Thank you for your reply. I did as you suggested, but it results in the MOVE action and not a COPY action. When I drag contents across the panes, its no longer present in the parent document. My requirement is unfortunately not to move, but to copy all the rems across.

#8

Hold up, in your OP you said cut and paste, which is the definition of move. Another option is to create a portal which you can do by holding alt when dragging - the portal lets you edit the original contents and the original contents will show that they link through a portal to some other rem.