Hey there! @mallika shall I mention you here?
So I have an urgent fix for the mobile app.
Before the latest update, I was able to go in a row and select the text of a cell which result come from a formula. I can’t select and copy the text anymore and this is dramatic as I use a table on mobile in order to gather informations to copy and post on specific mobile apps like Instagram or tiktok.
I also have a few suggestions for features like this. There could be a copy cell content button or icon or anything that could make the process to copy informations from a table on mobile more fast and effective.
Coda is the best tool I have to prepare my marketing posts, and until this new bug, it was very good. Now it’s nearly useless as I can’t copy the formatted cells anymore (typically post text + tags).
Thanks!
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Hey Tom, thanks for letting us know such a good detailed feedback. This indeed looks like a bug introduced on mobile, I’ll report this into our internal tracker. Hopefully this can be resolved soon.
Regards.
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Thanks! I’m still struggling today 
It is such a cool way to manage marketing!
+1
We’d love to use Coda for sharing complex documentations with developers, who need to be able to select and copy anything. But for some cases they need edit rights and unlock the page to do that. Which is frustrating and also allows to unwanted edits.
Quite contrary to many Coda “unable to copy” features, we need to let anyone with the access to copy anything they see.
Is there any update on this??
I would really like to be able to copy the text in a “concatenated” text column so i could paste it into other applications, but I can’t do it on my laptop.
Is there something I’m doing wrong here?
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I know it’s not ideal, but if you only need to copy the contents of one column, you could create a button for this purpose → YourColumn.CopyToClipboard()
Thanks so much for the reply Pablo,
I usually want to copy just one single cell. There’s a column on the left of the screen shot here that contains individual ID numbers. We need to copy these numbers out to various other applications (like google docs, etc.) but since we can’t select and copy the data in that cell we have to manually write out these sort of arbitrary but important strings of numbers – it’s just errors waiting to happen. Like, I don’t want to change the numbers (heaven forbid!!) I just want to be able to hover and copy! (lol). thanks.
Your screenshot is a ‘Detail view’ of a table and unfortunately that’s quite limited. The only way that I have found is just adding a button under the title. But you would need to click first on the item and then on the button.
But if you are willing to change the layout to a ‘Cards view’, then you have more possibilities. In this example you can copy any of the items, because the button is visible in all cards, and also you can hover over the title for another button to pop up.
This is most likely an AI Bot, haven’t seen so many yet in the community
