Manipulating cells in tab separated mode

[spiros]

How is it possible to Insert content in a cell and shift other cells of the column down?
For example, in Excel one can right click on a cell, select Insert, and then a modal appears with the selection Shift cells right, down… etc

[Yutaka Emura]

There are commands called “Insert Line Before”, “Insert Line After”, “Insert Column Left”, and “Insert Column Right” commands.

[spiros]

Thanks, but if I am not wrong, these simply insert lines after or before text in standard mode (not tsv). What I describe is manipulating cell positions and adjusting the surrounding cells according to the options above, I.e. Shift cells right and Shift cells down. For example if in the following table I shift down “b”

1 – 2 – a
3 – 4 – b
5 – 6 – c
7 – 8 – d

The result will be:

1 – 2 – a
3 – 4 –
5 – 6 – b
7 – 8 – c
—- —- d

You can see what I mean by checking the relevant commands on Excel (right click on cell, select Insert).

[Yutaka Emura]

You can drag and drop selected cells if you drag the border of the selection.
If you would like to use a macro, please see:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72427501/optimised-function-to-copy-columns-of-selected-data-by-a-variable-amount-up-dow

[spiros]

You can drag and drop selected cells if you drag the border of the selection.

Wow, cool, I did not know you could do that. However, when dropping cell to another cell, it overwrites it (no option to move down, etc).

But I guess your macro should do what I described.

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