Easy way to copy/paste XY data points

Hi, now I´m testing the new plotting editor (fantastic! I love it), and one normal requirement for this feature would be compare two curves from different analysis. I have made some data manipulation on the columns before creating the XY dataset (to change units and duplicate the load value due to symmetry, and in the displacement i have changed the direction multiplying by -1), so I have the curve for my analysis 1, but when I try to copy that data and paste in another sesion of Prepomax with Analysis 2 in another XY dataset, the pasted values are not those affected by the From_Equation.

I also find that for some reason, is a little complex to paste directly the XY values. As the values pasted were not correct, I paste before in Excel and then copy from that to fix the wrong values, but Prepomax tries to past all the data in one cell, I found that If I paste in Notepad, and copy from that I can paste it and Prepomax understand the two columns of data.

Also found that the XY Plot definition (titles) are not stored, so for the next sesion one has to redefine all again.

Best regards

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I can confirm the copy/paste problem. The reason is that PrePoMax adds column names to the copied text - for pasting into Excel - but then fails to paste it back to the datagrid. I fixed it.

But I did not encounter the problem where incorrect or other values were pasted.

I have also added a plot state to the save file so that the next time PrePoMax is opened, the sidebar opens with the same setup.

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I confirm that the pasted values are ok (my mistake), only the two blank lines and some error messages: