how to copy paste values in one column to another in google open refine

I basically prefer calling it open refine,as it is no longer supported by google and is a community driven open source project. However, one serious lack for this browser based software is its usage and knowhow information which is spread all across the internet.

Today, I will talk about a common limitation that I had faced time and again when I needed to copy extracted data from column-A to column-B, I used to download it as excel and then copy it to column-B and reupload it as separate project.

However, I stumbled upon a solution to this problem.

Note- Do use filters(text,numeric,etc) as per your need or facets (duplicate facet) as per your project need on both or any on column.

What I did was -
1) I used blank filter in open refine
2) then I used transform option on the destination column,where I wanted values to be copied to
3) I used the following function - [Note the syntax]

cells["source_col_name"].value

and voila! all the values gets copied to the destination column.

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