# Paste data from Excel into \`TableView\` in Column

**URL:** <https://community.wolfram.com/t/paste-data-from-excel-into-tableview-in-column/15553>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** data-science, mathematica, import-and-export, interface-construction, ui-ux-and-ide\
**Created:** [March 22, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/paste-data-from-excel-into-tableview-in-column/15553 "2020-03-22T19:45:37Z")\
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I was looking for a way to paste from Excel into `TableView`. I can do it with an `InputField` like this…

TableView Expression:

```
tableViewExpr = TableView[Dynamic[tab]]

```

InputField expression:

```
inputFieldExpr = InputField[
 Dynamic[string, {(string = #) &, (tab = 
      StringSplit[StringSplit[string, "\n"], "\t"] /. {} -> Nothing; 
     string = "") &}], String, FieldSize -> {10, 1}, 
 ContinuousAction -> True]

```

But if I try putting these in a column

```
Column[{
inputFieldExpr,
tableViewExpr
}]

```

the table won’t update when I paste in new values. I tried a few ways to force the TableView expression to update but haven’t been able to make it work.