Monday, September 11, 2017

Excel Paste Special

The following comes from a newsletter issued by Exceljet.net:

Do you use Paste Special every day?

If not, you could be wasting a lot of time in Excel.

Paste Special sounds boring, but it's a gateway to many hidden and powerful features:
 

A treasure trove of powerful features lies here!

With paste special, you can easily:
  • Convert formulas to static values
  • Paste data without borders
  • Paste formulas without cell formatting
  • Paste values without any formatting at all
  • Copy column widths (bizarre, but useful!)
  • Extend formatting down a large table
  • Copy and paste comments
  • Copy and paste data validation
  • Clone a pivot table (without source data or controls)
Not only that, you can use Paste Special to change values without formulas. This lets you do things like:
  • Add 30 days to column of dates
  • Subtract a penny from a sheet of prices
  • Increase sales projections by 10%
All without formulas.

If all that's not enough, Paste Special lets you transpose vertical data to horizontal, and vice versa!

The bottom line: Paste Special is a killer feature you should use every day in Excel.

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