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3393395 - How to restore ALV Grid copy & paste old behavior on SAP GUI 800

Symptom

Clipboard content, especially when taken from applications like Microsoft Excel, may contain empty cells, columns or rows like in this example:

Some data   
 More data  
            
   Final data


So far, the ALV Grid Control used to overwrite the content of all cells when a block as depicted above was pasted. As an example, if one pasted the above data into an ALV Grid Control containing cells like these:

1USD747-400385
2USD747-400385
3USD747-400385
4USD747-400385
5USD747-400385


the result would have been:

Some data   
 More data  
    
   Final data
5USD747-400385


However, this result may be unexpected, and it was not consistent with the handling in SAP GUI for Java and SAP GUI for HTML. Therefore, as of SAP GUI for Windows 8.00 the default behavior for pasting data into an ALV Grid Control is changed, so that empty values do not overwrite cell content.

In the example above, the result with the new feature is:

Some dataUSD747-400385
2More data747-400385
3USD747-400385
4USD747-400Final data
5USD747-400385


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Environment

SAP GUI for Windows 800.

Keywords

ALV, ALVGrid, ALV Grid, Copy, Paste, Copy & Paste, Copy and Paste, Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+c Ctrl+v, ALVPasteOverwriteValues, HKEY, HKCU, HKLM, SAP GUI 800. , KBA , BC-FES-GUI , SAP GUI for Windows , BC-FES-CTL , SAP GUI for Windows Controls , How To

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