Pasting from a clipboard

Sometimes it is easier to just paste data from the clipboard than pasting it to Excel or CSV files and then importing them again in Tableau. Tableau does provide a quick import method from the clipboard.

Getting ready

Let's use the Titanic dataset that we used in the Connecting to the text files recipe. The file is at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/DataSets/titanic.txt.

How to do it...

Once you have determined that the Titanic dataset file is on your local drive, perform the following steps to copy the data to Tableau using a clipboard:

  1. Open the file in Notepad.
  2. Select all the data and copy everything from the file to the clipboard (Ctrl + A and then Ctrl + C on Windows), and perform the following steps:
    1. In Tableau, ...

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