A board table copies and pastes as tab-separated text, which is the format Excel and Google Sheets use. A block of forty delivery dates in a spreadsheet can go into forty cells on the board in one paste.
Copy from a board
- Select a cell or a range.
- Press
Cmd+C(Ctrl+Con Windows). - Paste into your spreadsheet. Each board column lands in a spreadsheet column.
Copying works from view access up. Reading values you can already see on screen does not need edit rights.
Paste into a board
- In your spreadsheet, copy the block you want to bring over.
- In the board table, click the top-left cell of where it should land.
- Press
Cmd+V(Ctrl+Von Windows).
The block fills down and to the right from that cell. Pasting needs edit access on the board.
How each property type reads a pasted value
| Property | What to paste | Match rule |
|---|---|---|
| Status | The option label, for example Approved |
Case-insensitive match against that column's options |
| Multi tag | The option labels | Case-insensitive match against that column's options |
| Person | An email, or a full name | Exact email first, then a case-insensitive full-name match among board members |
| Date | YYYY-MM-DD, for example 2026-09-14 |
Exact format |
| Checkbox | true or false |
Exact |
| Text | Anything, up to 600 characters | Pasted as-is |
What gets skipped, and why
Brault never invents data from a paste. A cell is skipped when:
- the pasted label does not match an existing option on that property. Brault does not create new status or tag options from a paste;
- the person value matches no member of the board;
- the target column's type cannot hold the value, for example text pasted into a date column.
After the paste, a message reports the result, like "12 applied, 3 skipped". Skipped cells keep their previous value, so nothing is lost.
When a paste is skipped and you expected it to apply
- Check the spelling of the option label against the property's options. Extra spaces and trailing characters from a spreadsheet are the usual cause.
- Check that dates are
YYYY-MM-DD, not the locale format your spreadsheet displays. In Google Sheets, format the column as plain text before copying. - Check that the person is a member of the board, and that you copied the email rather than a display name that differs from their profile.
- If a status option genuinely does not exist yet, add it first from the column header (manage access), then paste again.
If none of this worked
Contact us from the support form and include the board name, the property you were pasting into, and two or three of the exact values that were skipped. That is enough for us to reproduce it.