Microsoft KB Archive/113651

Project: Blank Row Inserted When Row Copied by Dragging

PSS ID Number: Q113651 Article last modified on 11-16-1994

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WINDOWS

= SYMPTOMS =

In Microsoft Project, when you copy a row in a project and paste it to an adjacent row by pressing the CTRL key and dragging the row to the previous or following row, a blank row is inserted between the copied and the pasted row.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= WORKAROUND =

To create adjacent rows in Microsoft Project, do any of the following:

  Select the row you want to duplicate, and any following rows you want to fill with the information. Choose Fill Down from the Edit menu. -or-   Press the CTRL key and drag the selected row to the adjacent row. Then select the blank row, and choose Delete Task from the Edit menu. -or-   Copy the selected row by choosing Copy from the Edit menu. Select the row following the row you copied, and choose Paste from the Edit menu. (Note that this method only works to paste a row to the row following the copied row. When you paste a row to the row previous to the copied row, a blank row is inserted between the two.) 

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

 * 1) In a new project, in row ID 5, enter a task, T5.
 * 2) Select row ID 5 to select the entire record that contains T5. Press the CTRL key, click the ID column for row 5, and drag the selected record to row ID 4.

The selected record is pasted to row ID 4, and the original record is now row ID 6.

 Select row ID 6 to select the entire record. Press the CTRL key, click the ID column for row 6, and drag the selected record to row ID 7.

The selected record is pasted to row ID 8. A blank row is inserted between the row you copied and the row you pasted to.

= REFERENCES =

For more information about Copying And Moving Fields, Rows, And Columns, choose the Search button in Help and type:

rows: copying KBCategory: kbusage KBSubcategory:

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