Hi all, Ethan here from the Atlassian Platform Editor team, responsible for the rich-text editor supporting Confluence, and the wider suite of Atlassian cloud products. I wanted to share that though there are no longer dedicated buttons for these operations, copying, cutting, and pasting rows/columns, is all still very much possible in the 'new' editor. See the attached recording to see how this can be achieved using the keyboard shortcuts (which will vary depending on your operating system):

• Copy: Cmd/Ctrl + C
• Cut: Cmd/Ctrl + X
• Paste: Cmd/Ctrl + V

Screen Recording 2022-11-16 at 9.42.41 pm.mov

If you are still encountering issues with copying, cutting, and/or pasting table rows and columns, my team and I would be very keen to better understand opportunities to improve this experience for you. You can book a meeting using my calendly link https://calendly.com/eyew/30min or email me at eyew@atlassian.com 

Thanks all and stay safe,
Ethan

we also just migrated to the 'new' editor and it is sad to see that the issue with the table editing changes has been an issue for years. Now to add or remove a column or row it is multiple clicks, lost the ability to copy and paste rows/columns, etc. I can't believe such basic capabilities were removed. We use tables all of the time to organize our documentation. These changes to the new editor is terrible and makes it so much more challenging on a day to day basis. Really disappointed in making a very useful and easy to use activity into a painful process.

There has been a steady dumbing down and downgrading of table functionality for many years now.   Variable width, nested tables, text alongside, variable row height, the list is endless.  And the new editor is even worse.   I've had numerous exchanges with Confluence people about this, but never once have I received anything even remotely like honesty or sense from them.

Agree with above comments, see also https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Copy-cut-paste-columns-in-confluence-table-new-editor/qaq-p/1021686# 

The edit, copy, paste functions for tables are really useful, since we are working with tables a lot. With the new editor this is far more laborious. This is all the more astonishing, since Atlassian solutions are usually very easy to use. So please improve the new editor, thx.   

Need these back - there's no way to quickly copy a table from old editor and paste it into new editor. I've tried all suggestions (start copying from above the old table, pasting in excel first, etc) - none of these workarounds actually work. 

We migrated to the cloud and I really miss the edit functions for tables. As we use these quite often the new editor is really not very userfriendly as it makes it really hard to edit tables when you were only on click away in the legacy editor. PLEASE help us users and improve the new editor!

It's as if Atlassian closely monitored the way I used tables, and removed or made more difficult every feature I depended on.

Overall suggestion : stop trying to bring the new editor up to the standard of the legacy one.  Just scrap it and keep developing the legacy one.  Don't reinforce a mistake.

I use tables a lot in my documentation and have had my workflow impacted by the loss of copy/cut/paste rows. It would be wonderful to have this ability restored.