# Dash datatable - text column delimited with spaces copying entire cell **URL:** \ **Category:** Dash Python\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/dash-datatable-text-column-delimited-with-spaces-copying-entire-cell/42961 "2020-07-26T14:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kitecarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kitecarl](https://community.plotly.com/u/kitecarl)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/dash-datatable-text-column-delimited-with-spaces-copying-entire-cell/42961/1 "2020-07-26T14:16:50Z")
Hello I have a datatable cell with space delimited strings, containing primary keys that I have grouped-by and melted in Pandas into one column as below identifier1 identifier2 identifier3 identifier4 Etc… I limit my datatable display to only show the first 10 identifiers . If I try to copy just 1 identifier via standard copy/paste though, I get the entire cell contents - all 10 identifiers with spaces in between - copied to my clipboard, even though I only had one identifier selected. I’ve tried shift+copy and shift+select using my mouse after seeing some earlier mentions of this issue, but this didn’t work. Has anyone else encountered this, and is there a configuration or workaround? Thank you for your help! ---
**Author:** ![nedned](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/nedned/32/8795_2.png) [@nedned](https://community.plotly.com/u/nedned)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:42am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/dash-datatable-text-column-delimited-with-spaces-copying-entire-cell/42961/2 "2022-03-18T08:42:35Z")
There’s a similar question here, where I’ve linked to a relevant GitHub issue: [Copy the part of text from selected cell in DataTable](https://community.plotly.com/t/copy-the-part-of-text-from-selected-cell-in-datatable/46317)