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Invoices / Bills - Option to copy line above

Whilst doing multiline bills and invoices we need a key stroke shortcut that copies the line above to reduce time taken to enter data. I was used to this in sage. I REALLY miss it. Please!!!!

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  • Hamid Khan commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's a small hack for copying cell only from the line above or from any other line or cell in the same item / window. You just double click the cell; right click; select copy; right click on the cell you want to paste; select past. BOOM!:0

  • Petra Koneva commented  ·   ·  Report

    We need this as soon as possible! It saves a great deal of time.

  • Abi Gold commented  ·   ·  Report

    I miss F6 from Sage and would LOVE to see this in Xero. When could there be an update on this please?

  • Helen Tkaczyk commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would so appreciate a shortcut key to repeat the coding from the line above as well

  • Kayleigh Dowsett commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be an invaluable update to Xero. Recently moved from Sage50 and really miss it.

  • jo connell commented  ·   ·  Report

    This was an excellent time saving feature on sage that I really miss as we have a partial vat code that is different so have to enter every line twice now instead of using the handy T13 code in sage and I can't even copy the description or the branch part of an invoice over. Please make this available asap.

  • Sylwia Makaj commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes please!
    F6 was a time saver in Sage... other programs has that function too

  • Rachel Keenan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please take this on board, it is such a pain having to copy the line above and paste into the line below. Even VT software has this function with F9.

  • Chris Pratt commented  ·   ·  Report

    This needs doing ASAP!!! Please sort this for all parts of Xero (Invoices, bills, Journals etc)

  • Anna Bayliss commented  ·   ·  Report

    We need to duplicate unique lines all the time so that we can split bills across multiple tracking categories. Duplicate line is a basic function that all accounting tools should have

  • Greta Iddeson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I really miss the ability to copy the line above as I have several departments and am often splitting invoices. This was F6 in Sage and really useful

  • Robyn Storey commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having just moved from Sage50 I used to use F6 to copy a line all the time. So quick and easy. Would appreciate a similar function in Xero.

  • Zeno Meynell-Rea commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm actually really surprised this isn't a feature already. in Sage it was an F Key (F6 I believe), and you could also use Shift+F6 to copy the cell above and add one, so if you were sequential numbering it made things really quick.

    Just to clarify, it didn't copy the full line, but rather cell by cell, and you could copy a whole line in a second just by tabbing and pressing F6.

  • Tamara Chapman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Sage50 used to have an f-key function to copy the details of the line above into a new line on both journals and invoicing. This was a real time saver - please can we get something like that in Xero

  • Sabrina Bale commented  ·   ·  Report

    We've just moved over from Sage and miss this functionality so much! We operate under 1 business, but have multiple departments which we often split costs across so we would use this functionality daily.

  • Cheryl Povey commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is also a feature we miss after moving over from Sage. Setting up an inventory item is not the answer for this as it can vary between circumstance and customer.

  • Aysha Rangrez commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would be useful in ALL Xero functions and for ALL fields - journals, bill, invoices, bank, description, qty, amount, code, tax, dept (tracking fields)...you get the idea. This will speed up any manual input that is required - it's not always efficient or appropriate to set import template or set up products and inventory when you have a handful of items to input