# Dataview Copy Tags they paste as links not tags

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/dataview-copy-tags-they-paste-as-links-not-tags/54127>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** dataview, tags\
**Created:** [February 9, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/dataview-copy-tags-they-paste-as-links-not-tags/54127 "2023-02-09T20:57:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![tralston](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/tralston/32/41198_2.png) [@tralston](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/tralston)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/dataview-copy-tags-they-paste-as-links-not-tags/54127/1 "2023-02-09T20:57:28Z")

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### Things I have tried

### What I’m trying to do

I have a dataview present on my meeting notes pages (from Templater) that shows a list of todos that haven’t been finished for a specific topic. I will discuss those topics in that day’s meeting, and need to be able to take notes, modify, etc. But the dataview is obviously a query, so I can’t modify the results where they sit.

So I copy the todos and paste them in the main body of the note. This is fine, except that any tags I have are pasted as links, rather than as tags. Copying and pasting a tag from the main file works fine, and it’s recognized as a tag when I paste it. But copying/pasting from a dataview result set and pasting into the file results in a link.

What I expect:

Copy  
 ![CleanShot 2023-02-09 at 12.55.43@2x](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/2/7/2776b92244d6f6a3014db5bc34d20137dc9c0fb6.png)  
 → Paste  
 ![CleanShot 2023-02-09 at 12.55.43@2x](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/2/7/2776b92244d6f6a3014db5bc34d20137dc9c0fb6.png)

What I get:

Copy  
 ![CleanShot 2023-02-09 at 12.55.43@2x](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/2/7/2776b92244d6f6a3014db5bc34d20137dc9c0fb6.png)  
 → Paste  
 ![CleanShot 2023-02-09 at 12.56.47@2x](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/6/e/6ef44899e2b9d8db3e85e23b92ee615299f7eb2c.png)  
 → expanded gives  
 ![CleanShot 2023-02-09 at 12.57.09@2x](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/4/7/478a3472f3261f540eba756a1903fd82ff4c175d.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/dataview-copy-tags-they-paste-as-links-not-tags/54127/2 "2023-05-10T20:57:58Z")

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