When there are fewer columns of data on the clipboard than there are in the data table, the cells for the additional columns in the data table fill with missing values. These actions are the same as those for JMP 3 when Paste at End is used with a selected destination. Thus the discontiguous nature of the selection is lost. When you then paste, the default is as described previously the information fills a rectangular area starting at the bottom of the table in the first column, as shown in the table to the right. If you create two additional rows in the table and select those rows but don t select columns, Paste notes that the number of columns on the clipboard isn t the same as the number of columns in the data table and gives an alert.
Nothing is pasted.
If you only select columns, the clipboard contents fill the columns completely, cycling through the values to fill the columns, as in the left-hand table in Figure C . To preserve the discontiguous paste selection, both rows and columns have to be selected, as shown in the right-hand table in Figure C .