To eliminate repetitive work, an existing table may be copied to create a new one. To copy and paste a table, follow these steps:
1. Right-click the title row of the table to copy, and select 'Copy' from the right-click menu. This copies the table to the clipboard.
2. Right-click on an empty cell in the Data Worksheet where you would like to paste the copy. Select 'Paste' from the right-click menu to paste the clipboard copy into the Worksheet.
A new table is created in the Worksheet at that location.Although the newly created table is a copy of the existing table, the two tables are completely independent of each other. Therefore, changes made to one table do not affect the other table.
A mirrored table looks just like a copied table, but remains linked to the original table. This link is one-way only: Changes made to the original table are propagated to the mirrored table, but changes made to the mirrored table are not propagated to the original table.
To create a mirrored table, right-click the title row of the table to mirror, and select 'Mirror' from the right-click menu.
The new mirrored table is created, and a graphical link to the original table is drawn to indicate the dependency.
A mirrored table is useful when you want to manipulate data in a table without affecting dependent assets. For example, if a table is being used as a component of a Composition Table, manipulation of the table's data would propagate to the dependent Composition Table as well. To prevent this propagation, you can mirror the original table and then work with the mirrored copy instead of the original.