by Tony Rushin
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Have you ever done a copy/paste and ended up with unwanted formulas or formatting? Paste Special is a way to get around that. If you’ve never used Paste Special, here’s a short video (less than 2 minutes long) that can quickly orient you.
Paste Special is found at the bottom of the drop down window that opens when you click on the Paste tab
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Here are the options you have when you open it:
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For those of you who use shortcut keys, you can open Paste Special with Ctrl+Alt+V or Alt+E+S.
Many times, when I export information out of a cloud-based application, the numbers come over as text fields: Paste Special can fix this in a jiffy. In other cases, I want to copy the formula – or the value – but don’t want to mess with the formatting: Paste Special saves me from having to reformat after I paste. Those are my two biggest reasons for using Paste Special. For more advanced uses of Paste Special, here’s a great video I found that shows several Paste Special tricks… and the guy has a cool British accent.
