Re: non-destructive paste?

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Select n lines before selecting Edit/Insert/Rows, this will insert n
rows.

Hope this helps,
Jean

Le dimanche 22 septembre 2013 à 17:13 -0400, Allin Cottrell a écrit :
> This must be dead simple, but I'm not finding it via google.
>
> I select and copy n rows of material in sheet2 of a workbook, then I 
> switch to sheet1, use Insert to prepend a blank row, and do paste with the 
> cursor in A1. The effect is to overwrite the first n-1 rows in sheet1.
>
> That's what you'd want sometimes, but what I want is for the paste to 
> prepend the sheet2 data, moving the existing rows down, not overwriting 
> them. How is that done, please?
>
> (This is gnumeric 1.12.7.)