You can copy rows from one rundown and paste them into a different rundown, even across different tabs. Rundown matches the copied columns to the columns in the destination rundown, so cell content lands where it belongs instead of shifting out of place.
This is the fastest way to reuse a block of rows you have already built: a standard open, a recurring break pattern, or a set of rows from last year's show.
Who can use this
Anyone who can copy rows can copy them out of a rundown. To paste, you need edit access to the destination rundown.
Step 1: Copy the rows
In the source rundown, select the rows you want by clicking their item number cells. Hold SHIFT to select a block, or hold CMD / CTRL to pick rows out of order.
Press ā C (Mac) or Ctrl + C (Windows), or right-click an item number cell and choose Copy Row.
Step 2: Paste into the other rundown
Open the destination rundown. It can be in a different show, event, or team, and it can be in another browser tab or window.
Click the item number cell of the row you want the copied rows to land below. This selected row is required, it tells Rundown where to insert.
Press ā V (Mac) or Ctrl + V (Windows).
The rows are inserted below the selected row, in the same top-to-bottom order they had in the source rundown, and a Row(s) pasted confirmation appears.
Note: use the keyboard shortcut for a cross-rundown paste. The right-click Paste Row Below option only appears for a copy made inside the rundown you are currently in.
How columns are matched
The two rundowns rarely have identical columns, so we help by working out the best fit for you:
Title column always lands in the destination's Title column, and Private Notes always land in Private Notes, no matter what either rundown calls them.
Other text columns are matched by name first. A column named "Camera" in the source goes to a column named "Camera" in the destination. Capitalization does not matter.
Any remaining columns are matched by position, left to right, into the destination's remaining text columns.
A source column with no available match is skipped, and its content is not pasted.
If anything was skipped, the confirmation toast tells you how many columns were dropped, for example "2 columns had no match and were skipped". Renaming the destination columns to match the source before you paste is the easiest way to avoid this.
What carries over
Comes with the rows:
Cell text and all its formatting (bold, italic, colors, highlights)
Row duration
Title rows stay title rows
Does not come with the rows:
Start times and preset durations. Pasted rows pick up their timing from the destination rundown, the same way a duplicated row does.
Group headers. Selecting a group header does not copy it. Copy the rows inside the group instead.
Private Notes: notes are personal to each user. Pasted Private Notes content lands in your notes in the destination rundown, visible only to you.
Notes and limits
Cut behaves like copy across rundowns. Cutting rows and pasting them into a different rundown creates the rows in the destination but leaves the originals in place. Delete them yourself once you have confirmed the paste. Within a single rundown, cut still moves the rows.
You can paste more than once. The copied rows stay on your clipboard, so you can paste the same block into several rundowns in a row.
Pasting onto a group. If the row you select is a group header, or sits inside a group, the pasted rows join that group.
Nothing selected, nothing pasted. If no row is selected in the destination, the paste does nothing. Select a row and try again.
Editing a cell changes what paste does. If your cursor is inside a cell, ā V pastes text into that cell instead of creating rows. Press Escape or click an item number cell first.
Hidden columns are included. Content in hidden columns is copied and pasted so nothing is silently lost.
Escape cancels a pending copy or cut. The rows stop being marked as copied in the grid.
Multi-row pastes cannot be undone with ā Z. If you paste in the wrong place, select the new rows and delete them.
Pasting rows into other apps
The same copy also works outside Rundown. Paste into Google Sheets, Excel, Word, or an email and the rows arrive as a table with one column per rundown column, which is handy for sharing a quick excerpt of your run of show.
Copying from a spreadsheet into rundown rows is not supported yet. To bring a spreadsheet in, use CSV import.