diff --git a/pgmanage/app/static/pgmanage_frontend/src/components/DataEditorTab.vue b/pgmanage/app/static/pgmanage_frontend/src/components/DataEditorTab.vue
index e9d62fb7a..e0aa82e20 100644
--- a/pgmanage/app/static/pgmanage_frontend/src/components/DataEditorTab.vue
+++ b/pgmanage/app/static/pgmanage_frontend/src/components/DataEditorTab.vue
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     </div>
   </div>
 
-    <div ref="tabulator" class="tabulator-custom data-grid grid-height">
+    <div ref="tabulator" class="tabulator-custom data-grid grid-height" @keydown.delete="clearSelectedData">
   </div>
 
   <div ref="bottomToolbar" class="data-editor__footer d-flex align-items-center justify-content-end p-2">
@@ -168,8 +168,10 @@ export default {
       headerSortClickElement:"icon",
       ajaxURL: "http://fake",
       ajaxRequestFunc: this.getTableData,
-      clipboard: "copy",
+      clipboard: true,
       clipboardCopyRowRange: "range",
+      clipboardPasteParser:"range",
+      clipboardPasteAction: "range",
       clipboardCopyConfig: {
         columnHeaders: false, //do not include column headers in clipboard output
         formatCells:false, //cell formatting on clipboard copy breaks rowFormatter's ability to colorize data grid rows
@@ -178,12 +180,12 @@ export default {
 
     table.on("tableBuilt", () => {
       this.tabulator = markRaw(table); // markRaw fixes problem with making tabulator proxy, that we don't need
-      this.tabulator.on("cellEditing", (cell) => { // Prevent Tabulator from hijacking left/right arrow keys and mouse click while editing
+      this.tabulator.on("cellEditing", (cell) => { // Prevent Tabulator from hijacking left/right arrow keys, delete key and mouse click while editing
         this.$nextTick(() => {
           const el = cell.getElement().querySelector("input");
           if (!el) return;
           el.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
-            if (["ArrowLeft", "ArrowRight"].includes(e.key)) e.stopPropagation();
+            if (["ArrowLeft", "ArrowRight", "Delete"].includes(e.key)) e.stopPropagation();
           });
           el.addEventListener("mousedown", (e) => {
             e.stopPropagation();
@@ -192,6 +194,21 @@ export default {
       });
 
       this.tabulator.on("cellEdited", this.cellEdited);
+      this.tabulator.on("clipboardPasted", (clipboard, rowData, rows) => {
+        // manually trigger cellEdited on changed cells because clipboard paste doesn't do that
+         rows.forEach((row, rowIndex) => {
+          const rowValues = rowData[rowIndex];
+          if (!rowValues) return;
+
+          const cells = row.getCells();
+
+          cells.forEach((cell, cellIndex) => {
+            if (!(cellIndex in rowValues)) return;   // no pasted data for this column
+
+            this.cellEdited(cell.getComponent())
+          });
+        });
+      });
       this.knex = Knex({ client: mappedDialect || 'postgres'})
       this.getTableColumns().then(() => {
         this.addHeaderMenuOverlayElement();
@@ -855,6 +872,14 @@ export default {
         e.preventDefault();
       });
     },
+    clearSelectedData() {
+      const range = last(this.tabulator.getRanges());
+      if (!range) return;
+
+      range.getCells().flat().forEach((cell) => {
+        cell.setValue(null);
+      })
+    },
   },
   watch: {
     hasChanges() {