The text input tool lets you manually insert text into a table to create small data sets for input. This is most useful for creating lookup tables. And if you want to share your workflow with others without having to provide a separate input data file. Let's start by going to the inherent pain and dragging in the text input tool into our workflow. In the configuration menu on the left, we have the option of importing a file which is similar to our input data tool, or we can manually type in text here. Please note, the import option only imports the first 1000 rows of your data set.

Let's try manually typing in data and copying and pasting data from a worksheet. So if we use the manual text input here, we can type in some column names and some records. And let's delete all of them. And let's try copying and pasting from a worksheet. Select everything here, copy. And this interface here can be a bit finicky so I suggest clicking on any of these cells and shift tabbing until you get this thick border around the first cell.

Once you've done that, press paste and everything will be nicely pasted in. Press the run workflow button or Ctrl r on the keyboard and we have manually inserted data into our workflow.