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The use of the Macintosh clipboard to
transfer objects from one location to another is supported in almost
all applications. When working with text or numbers, FlowJo supports
Cut, Copy & Paste in a very standard way, but it extends the operations
to also work with graphs and objects in a layout.
When copying nodes within the workspace, you can
broaden the selection by using the same modifier keys as you would
to enhance a drag operation.
The option key will include all of the children of the selected
population. The control key will include all of the ancestor
populations (parent, grandparent, etc.) on the clipboard.
When pasting nodes into a workspace,
the contents of the clipboard will be grafted onto each selected
node in the destination. This means that you can copy
the analysis from one tree, select multiple target destinations
(using shift or command clicking) and paste the clipboard onto all
of the targets in a single paste operation.
If the nodes you are pasting already exist in the
destination, then you will be asked what to do: you can replace
the existing nodes with the ones you are copying, you can duplicate
the nodes you are pasting (the duplicate nodes will have a "-2"
appended to their name), or you can elect to retain the nodes in
the destination sample. The latter is useful when you want to copy
a whole tree with new analyses onto a sample which already has some
of the gates, but you want to change the sample's versions of the
gates. These options are more fully discussed in the pages on replacing
existing nodes.
Performing a copy from a graph
window will put several versions of the
graph onto the clipboard. If it is a histogram, the values
of each bin will be written as text to the clipboard (to facilitate
pasting this data into a spreadsheet or statistics package), the
image of the graph will be written as a PICT (for export to any
graphics package).
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