# How to pull/ copy data from another table

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**Created:** [April 14, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-pull-copy-data-from-another-table/72557 "2024-04-14T05:22:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 5:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-pull-copy-data-from-another-table/72557/2 "2024-04-14T05:37:28Z")

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> [@Gather data from one tab (data table within Glide) to another](https://community.glideapps.com/t/gather-data-from-one-tab-data-table-within-glide-to-another/65942/2):
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> A few random ideas:
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> 1. Are you sure you need to copy data from one table from another? If possible I would consider other options first.
> 2. **Table architecture**. Imagine I’m creating a Things tab on which I will display a collection of Things. In the Data Editor, I create a table called Things Tab and don’t touch it (I might touch it at the outset). I create a second table called Things Collection where I will store data related to the Things collection. Each of my tabs have their own table, each of my collections have their own table, and I keep these tables strictly separate.
> 3. **One-off methods to copy data.** You can right-click on any table and duplicate it. You can right-click on any table and do a data import. You can select cells in one table and copy-paste them into another. Below the Users table, you can import a file.
> 4. As long as the style of a tab is custom, any collection, and therefore any table, can live on any tab via a collection component.
> 5. **Fetching data from another table.** You can leverage the Single Value column. In the destination table (the table you are copying the data to):
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> - Create a dynamic RowIndex column: RowID column, lookup of RowID column, find element index of RowID column.
> - Create a Single Value column to pull in a column from the origin table: Single Value column, from start, RowIndex, column from the original table.
> - Repeat with Single Value columns to fetch additional columns.
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> I hope this helps.

Hi @mgalihm . I saw this in another thread. Does it help?

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