diff --git a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/GridworksServlet.java b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/GridworksServlet.java
index ab9fdd653..d902c2771 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/GridworksServlet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/GridworksServlet.java
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.AnnotateRowsCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.ApplyOperationsCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.CreateProjectCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.DeleteProjectCommand;
-import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.DoTextTransformCommand;
+import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.TextTransformCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.EditOneCellCommand;
-import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.FacetBasedEditCommand;
+import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.MassEditCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.JoinMultiValueCellsCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.RemoveColumnCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.edit.SaveProtographCommand;
@@ -76,14 +76,15 @@ public class GridworksServlet extends HttpServlet {
         
         _commands.put("compute-facets", new ComputeFacetsCommand());
         _commands.put("compute-clusters", new ComputeClustersCommand());
-        _commands.put("do-text-transform", new DoTextTransformCommand());
-        _commands.put("facet-based-edit", new FacetBasedEditCommand());
+        
         _commands.put("edit-one-cell", new EditOneCellCommand());
+        _commands.put("text-transform", new TextTransformCommand());
+        _commands.put("mass-edit", new MassEditCommand());
+        _commands.put("join-multi-value-cells", new JoinMultiValueCellsCommand());
+        _commands.put("split-multi-value-cells", new SplitMultiValueCellsCommand());
         
         _commands.put("add-column", new AddColumnCommand());
         _commands.put("remove-column", new RemoveColumnCommand());
-        _commands.put("join-multi-value-cells", new JoinMultiValueCellsCommand());
-        _commands.put("split-multi-value-cells", new SplitMultiValueCellsCommand());
         
         _commands.put("reconcile", new ReconcileCommand());
         _commands.put("recon-match-best-candidates", new ReconMatchBestCandidatesCommand());
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/FacetBasedEditCommand.java b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/MassEditCommand.java
similarity index 71%
rename from src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/FacetBasedEditCommand.java
rename to src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/MassEditCommand.java
index 08309ecb9..3714cb4e3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/FacetBasedEditCommand.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/MassEditCommand.java
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import org.json.JSONObject;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.commands.EngineDependentCommand;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.AbstractOperation;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.Project;
-import com.metaweb.gridworks.operations.FacetBasedEditOperation;
+import com.metaweb.gridworks.operations.MassEditOperation;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.util.ParsingUtilities;
 
-public class FacetBasedEditCommand extends EngineDependentCommand {
+public class MassEditCommand extends EngineDependentCommand {
     @Override
     protected AbstractOperation createOperation(Project project,
             HttpServletRequest request, JSONObject engineConfig) throws Exception {
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ public class FacetBasedEditCommand extends EngineDependentCommand {
         String expression = request.getParameter("expression");
         String editsString = request.getParameter("edits");
         
-        return new FacetBasedEditOperation(
+        return new MassEditOperation(
             engineConfig,
             columnName,
             expression,
-            FacetBasedEditOperation.reconstructEdits(ParsingUtilities.evaluateJsonStringToArray(editsString))
+            MassEditOperation.reconstructEdits(ParsingUtilities.evaluateJsonStringToArray(editsString))
         );
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/DoTextTransformCommand.java b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/TextTransformCommand.java
similarity index 92%
rename from src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/DoTextTransformCommand.java
rename to src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/TextTransformCommand.java
index 79a194b50..2ded3fc09 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/DoTextTransformCommand.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/commands/edit/TextTransformCommand.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.AbstractOperation;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.Project;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.operations.TextTransformOperation;
 
-public class DoTextTransformCommand extends EngineDependentCommand {
+public class TextTransformCommand extends EngineDependentCommand {
     @Override
     protected AbstractOperation createOperation(Project project,
             HttpServletRequest request, JSONObject engineConfig) throws Exception {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/FacetBasedEditOperation.java b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/MassEditOperation.java
similarity index 86%
rename from src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/FacetBasedEditOperation.java
rename to src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/MassEditOperation.java
index 738c94178..71d4c9445 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/FacetBasedEditOperation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/MassEditOperation.java
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.Column;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.Project;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.Row;
 import com.metaweb.gridworks.model.changes.CellChange;
+import com.metaweb.gridworks.util.ParsingUtilities;
 
-public class FacetBasedEditOperation extends EngineDependentMassCellOperation {
+public class MassEditOperation extends EngineDependentMassCellOperation {
     private static final long serialVersionUID = -7698202759999537298L;
 
     final protected String         _expression;
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ public class FacetBasedEditOperation extends EngineDependentMassCellOperation {
     static public AbstractOperation reconstruct(Project project, JSONObject obj) throws Exception {
         JSONObject engineConfig = obj.getJSONObject("engineConfig");
         
-        return new FacetBasedEditOperation(
+        return new MassEditOperation(
             engineConfig,
             obj.getString("columnName"),
             obj.getString("expression"),
@@ -82,13 +83,21 @@ public class FacetBasedEditOperation extends EngineDependentMassCellOperation {
                 from.add(fromA.getString(j));
             }
         
-            edits.add(new Edit(from, editO.getString("to")));
+            Serializable to = (Serializable) editO.get("to");
+            if (editO.has("type")) {
+                String type = editO.getString("type");
+                if ("date".equals(type)) {
+                    to = ParsingUtilities.stringToDate((String) to);
+                }
+            }
+
+            edits.add(new Edit(from, to));
         }
         
         return edits;
     }
     
-    public FacetBasedEditOperation(JSONObject engineConfig, String columnName, String expression, List<Edit> edits) {
+    public MassEditOperation(JSONObject engineConfig, String columnName, String expression, List<Edit> edits) {
         super(engineConfig, columnName, true);
         _expression = expression;
         _edits = edits;
@@ -113,13 +122,13 @@ public class FacetBasedEditOperation extends EngineDependentMassCellOperation {
     }
 
     protected String getBriefDescription(Project project) {
-        return "Facet-based edit cells in column " + _columnName;
+        return "Mass edit cells in column " + _columnName;
     }
 
     protected String createDescription(Column column,
             List<CellChange> cellChanges) {
         
-        return "Facet-based edit " + cellChanges.size() + 
+        return "Mass edit " + cellChanges.size() + 
             " cells in column " + column.getName();
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/OperationRegistry.java b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/OperationRegistry.java
index 1c7bdbd2e..26f3c5ec6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/OperationRegistry.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/metaweb/gridworks/operations/OperationRegistry.java
@@ -35,5 +35,6 @@ public abstract class OperationRegistry {
         
         register("save-protograph", SaveProtographOperation.class);
         register("text-transform", TextTransformOperation.class);
+        register("mass-edit", MassEditOperation.class);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/scripts/dialogs/facet-based-edit-dialog.js b/src/main/webapp/scripts/dialogs/facet-based-edit-dialog.js
index a646bc68b..963ac65aa 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/scripts/dialogs/facet-based-edit-dialog.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/scripts/dialogs/facet-based-edit-dialog.js
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ FacetBasedEditDialog.prototype._apply = function(onDone) {
     
     if (edits.length > 0) {
         Gridworks.postProcess(
-            "facet-based-edit",
+            "mass-edit",
             {},
             {
                 columnName: this._columnName,
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-cell-ui.js b/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-cell-ui.js
index 2cd14fec1..6dbcf8c70 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-cell-ui.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-cell-ui.js
@@ -288,16 +288,31 @@ DataTableCellUI.prototype._previewCandidateTopic = function(id, elmt) {
 DataTableCellUI.prototype._startEdit = function(elmt) {
     self = this;
     
+    var originalContent = this._cell == null || ("v" in this._cell && this._cell.v == null) ? "" : this._cell.v;
+    
     var menu = MenuSystem.createMenu().width("350px");
     menu.html(
-        '<textarea class="data-table-cell-edit-editor" bind="textarea" />' +
         '<table class="data-table-cell-edit-layout">' +
+            '<tr>' +
+                '<td colspan="4">' +
+                    '<textarea class="data-table-cell-edit-editor" bind="textarea" />' +
+                '</td>' +
+            '</tr>' +
             '<tr>' +
                 '<td>' +
-                    '<input type="radio" name="data-table-cell-edit-type" value="text" checked /> text ' +
-                    '<input type="radio" name="data-table-cell-edit-type" value="number" /> number ' +
-                    '<input type="radio" name="data-table-cell-edit-type" value="boolean" /> boolean' +
-                    '<input type="radio" name="data-table-cell-edit-type" value="date" /> date' +
+                    '<select bind="typeSelect">' +
+                        '<option value="text">text</option>' +
+                        '<option value="number">number</option>' +
+                        '<option value="boolean">boolean</option>' +
+                        '<option value="date">date</option>' +
+                    '</select>' +
+                '</td>' +
+                '<td width="1%">' +
+                    '<input type="checkbox" bind="applyOthersCheckbox" />' +
+                '</td>' +
+                '<td>' +
+                    'apply to other cells with<br/>' +
+                    'same original content' +
                 '</td>' +
                 '<td width="1%">' +
                     '<button bind="okButton">&nbsp;&nbsp;OK&nbsp;&nbsp;</button>' +
@@ -311,7 +326,9 @@ DataTableCellUI.prototype._startEdit = function(elmt) {
     MenuSystem.positionMenuLeftRight(menu, $(this._td));
     
     var commit = function() {
-        var type = $('input["data-table-cell-edit-type"]:checked')[0].value;
+        var type = elmts.typeSelect[0].value;
+        var applyOthers = elmts.applyOthersCheckbox[0].checked;
+        
         var text = elmts.textarea[0].value;
         var value = text;
         
@@ -334,30 +351,45 @@ DataTableCellUI.prototype._startEdit = function(elmt) {
         
         MenuSystem.dismissAll();
         
-        var params = {
-            row: self._rowIndex,
-            cell: self._cellIndex,
-            value: value,
-            type: type
-        };
-        
-        Gridworks.postProcess(
-            "edit-one-cell", 
-            params, 
-            null,
-            {},
-            {
-                onDone: function(o) {
-                    self._cell = o.cell;
-                    self._render();
+        if (applyOthers) {
+            Gridworks.postProcess(
+                "mass-edit",
+                {},
+                {
+                    columnName: Gridworks.cellIndexToColumn(self._cellIndex).name,
+                    expression: "value",
+                    edits: JSON.stringify([{
+                        from: [ originalContent ],
+                        to: value,
+                        type: type
+                    }])
+                },
+                { cellsChanged: true }
+            );            
+        } else {
+            Gridworks.postProcess(
+                "edit-one-cell", 
+                {
+                    row: self._rowIndex,
+                    cell: self._cellIndex,
+                    value: value,
+                    type: type
+                }, 
+                null,
+                {},
+                {
+                    onDone: function(o) {
+                        self._cell = o.cell;
+                        self._render();
+                    }
                 }
-            }
-        );
+            );
+        }
     };
     
     elmts.okButton.click(commit);
     elmts.textarea
-        .text(this._cell == null || ("v" in this._cell && this._cell.v == null) ? "" : this._cell.v)
+        .text(originalContent)
         .keydown(function(evt) {
             if (evt.keyCode == 13) {
                 commit();
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-column-header-ui.js b/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-column-header-ui.js
index 83b844252..f0d38a48d 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-column-header-ui.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/scripts/views/data-table-column-header-ui.js
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ DataTableColumnHeaderUI.prototype._doFilterByExpressionPrompt = function(express
 
 DataTableColumnHeaderUI.prototype._doTextTransform = function(expression, onError, repeat, repeatCount) {
     Gridworks.postProcess(
-        "do-text-transform",
+        "text-transform",
         {
             columnName: this._column.name, 
             expression: expression, 
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/styles/views/data-table-view.css b/src/main/webapp/styles/views/data-table-view.css
index 7d94cf02a..9b1f8a477 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/styles/views/data-table-view.css
+++ b/src/main/webapp/styles/views/data-table-view.css
@@ -167,14 +167,20 @@ table.data-table-cell-edit-layout {
     width: 100%;
     white-space: pre;
 }
-table.data-table-cell-edit-layout td {
-    padding: 5px;
+table.data-table-cell-edit-layout > tbody > tr > td {
+    padding-right: 5px;
+    padding-bottom: 5px;
+}
+table.data-table-cell-edit-layout > tbody > tr > td:last-child {
+    padding-right: 0px;
+}
+table.data-table-cell-edit-layout > tbody > tr:last-child > td {
+    padding-bottom: 0px;
 }
 
 textarea.data-table-cell-edit-editor {
     display: block;
-    width: 92%;
+    width: 96%;
     padding: 2%;
-    margin: 2%;
     height: 3em;
 }