My huge problem is when I need to have different format for several parts, because I need to have headings of this parts in bold This could be solved by formula like this: My problem is that in one part of the document I need to put content which may have various number of lines. Im making excel tool for creating some paper documents according to excel data So tell me, what is your all time favorite paste?Īt 9:40 is much bigger then I thought ? I wil have to use VBA probably. But I am more interested in knowing your favorite pasting hack. There are many more paste tricks that are hidden in Excel, like pasting live xml data to your sheets, pasting images, objects, files etc. If you want an image of your data, but live image (ie it should change if your data changes), then use the Paste Special > Linked picture option. Learn more about this trick used for date extraction. You can use this option to convert most types of text including comma separated values, fixed width values. The default options split text into words (by using space as a delimiter). This will launch the mildly powerful text import wizard of excel using which you can convert copied text to columns by defining some simple parsing conditions. For example, if you want to paste few lines of this blog post in an excel sheet but would like to see each word in a separate cell, you can copy the content here (CTRL+C), go to your excel sheet and use CTRL+V to paste the data and then click on the paste icon that appears at the bottom of the pasted cell and select “use text import wizard” option. This option is very useful when you are pasting data from outside. Paste text by converting it in to columns.Just use ALT+E S L to create an automatic reference to copied range of cells. If you want to create references to a bulk of cells instead of copy-pasting all the values this is the option for you. This will transpose copied values before pasting, thus converting rows to columns and columns to rows. How would you do that? Of course you can rely on trusty paste-special to do that little job for you. Convert rows to columns or columns to rows while pasting dataįor example you have large list of values in column A and you want to move (or copy) these values to row 1 across.Just copy row 1 values and use ALT + E S D. Manipulating with copied data while pastingįor example, if you have in Row 1 – 1 2 3 as values and in Row 2 – 7 8 9 as values and you would like to add row 1 values to row 2 values to get – 8 10 12, you can do this using paste special. Just use CTRL+V or ALT+E+P or one of those little paste icons on the context menu. This will reduce the amount of retyping you need to do.
If you want to copy comments alone from certain cells to a new set of cells, just use ALT + E S C.
Pressing right mouse button > Paste Specialīasic Copy Pasting of Data thru Excel Paste Special.But how well do you know “Paste”?, do you know that there are many variations to paste data to your excel sheets? Surprised? Well, read this post to become a master paster ?Īfter copying your data, You can activate Paste Special by Paste or Ctrl+v is probably the most effective productivity tool available to us.