Combine two tables into one - permanently

I am revising some older documents to work out some bugs and I realized in one place I have two tables that should be one. The house different data so I am not trying to merge data but I should have added all of the columns into one data since every column is about a company. My pain is that one table has 63 columns and the other has 42 columns. So it is going to be a pain to add all of the columns from 1 to the other. The data is easy to copy & paste but setting up all the columns is my challenge.

Has anyone figured an easy way to do this or do I have to add column by column manually and they fix all the formulas? Is there a way to even just copy column titles to a new table in a way similar to copy and pasting columns?

Once I clean this up I will delete the unneeded table.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or short cuts.

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You could totally do it with formulas, but it’s going to need a lot of setup and some fancy formula writing skills, which I’m not exactly up for. Maybe you should check out using a spreadsheet? It’s especially handy since you only need it once.

To get around the problem, I’d just copy both tables into one spreadsheet, make the changes there. Then, I’d copy the updated, organized data back into Coda.

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:waving_hand: @Chris_DeAngelis

to bulk add columns - I usually use the “Use as column headers“ feature.

To break it down in detail,

  1. Create a row and make it the first row in table.
  2. Cut and paste the column headers for the original table in newly created row.
  3. Create 1 column and click that cell (1st row in new column created), and paste the column names of Table 2. This should create new columns.
  4. Highlight row, and select “Use as column headers” .

Hope this helps!
Cheers!
Mel

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I love that idea. Just having the names makes it a lot easier to track. Thank you!

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Worked great. Saved me a ton of time. Thank you.

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