"Discover the Excel 2007 Paste Special Secrets!"

Yes, discover the secret of Excel 2007 Paste Special feature!

Maybe you are familiar with the basic copy and paste feature, whereby Excel copies all the information in the range of cells you selected: formatting, formulas, text, and other values you enter.

How about the paste special? Paste Special allows you to specify that only the entries be copied (without the formatting) or that just the formatting be copied (without the entries).

This page going to explains to you the Excel 2007 paste special options.

To use the Paste Special dialog box

• Select the range of data you wish to copy.
• On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click Copy icon.

OR press Ctrl+C.
• Click the cell where you want to paste the range.
• On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the down arrow of the Paste icon and click the Paste Special option.
• From the Paste Special dialog box displayed, select the necessary option from the Paste section:


Each option is explain as follow:


• In the Operation section, select the available suitable option.
• For example, if you select the Add option, Excel adds the corresponding values in the source range and the destination range and replaces the destination range with the new values.
• The Skip Blanks option prevents Excel from overwriting cell contents in your paste area with blank cells from the copied range. It is useful if you're copying a range to another area but don't want the blank cells in the copied range to overwrite existing data.
• The Transpose option can change the orientation of the pasted entries. For example, if the original cells' entries run down the rows of a single column of the worksheet, the transposed pasted entries will run across the columns of a single row (see steps below).

To use the Transpose option

• Select the range of data you wish to copy and transpose.
• On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click Copy icon.

OR press Ctrl+C.
• Click the cell where you want to place the range.
• On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the down arrow of the Paste icon and click Transpose.

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