Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Copying a Cell without Formatting.
If you want to copy the contents of a cell without formatting, you can easily do so by using the Paste Special feature of Excel. Simply follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Paste Special dialog box.
In step 5 you could have chosen the Values radio button, but Excel would not have transferred any formulas. Instead, it would have pasted the results of formulas, as if they were static values. In other words, to truly copy cell contents, you must use the Formulas radio button.
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2015-11-30 14:16:40
Tina Alvarado
Thank you! Your page made it so simple!
2014-11-03 02:58:09
Steven
Hi,
Now what about if you want to copy it as cells without format? For example, when you want to paste it in a Sharepoint table without adding the formatting.
Thanks in advance,
Steven.
2014-09-16 15:09:49
sreejith
Hi Allen,
thank you very much for this website and making me to be free from the problem I have been facing for the last few days.I was searching for a solution thus I found your website that is very simple and helped to got over..kudos Allen
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