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What is the difference between Paste and Paste Special Option in Excel?

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Paste is a feature that lets users cut or copy items from a Cells and transfer them to another. Paste Special allows the items being transferred to be formatted in several different ways. Paste Special is a feature found in many softwares like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice. Pasting...
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Paste is a feature that lets users cut or copy items from a Cells and transfer them to another. Paste Special allows the items being transferred to be formatted in several different ways. Paste Special is a feature found in many softwares like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice. Pasting text from a Web page often retains the HTML formatting of the original, while using Paste Special lets users change the font, use different links or adjust the size and color of the text. Paste Special also allows users to paste data into cells by copying formulas and calculations, which is unavailable when using Paste. read less
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Paste: Paste all values, formats, formulas, comments, etc. Paste special: Paste with option, only values, only values, only formats, etc or all.
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Paste Special removes all formatting from the copied text. Paste keeps the formatting, often with disastrous results.
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paste --> paste all values, formats, formulas, comments, etc paste special --> paste with option, only values, only values, only formats, etc, or all
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In word programs, there is normal pasting which is normally done with images, text, etc, then there is special pasting which allows you to copy a section of text from word for example and past it into another word program as a picture eg. It just allows you to copy one type of information and paste...
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In word programs, there is normal pasting which is normally done with images, text, etc, then there is special pasting which allows you to copy a section of text from word for example and past it into another word program as a picture eg. It just allows you to copy one type of information and paste it as another. The paste special command has a number of useful tools built into it. Besides allowing you to paste values, it also allows you to transpose lists (columns to rows or rows to columns), multiply, add, skip blanks and paste links. read less
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I understand that Paste Special > Values strips the formula and that Paste doesn't. But my question was about Paste > Values. That appears to do exactly the same thing as Paste Special >Values, doesn't it? They do the same thing... recording a macro for each action produces identical code. Apparently...
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I understand that Paste Special > Values strips the formula and that Paste doesn't. But my question was about Paste > Values. That appears to do exactly the same thing as Paste Special >Values, doesn't it? They do the same thing... recording a macro for each action produces identical code. Apparently Microsoft added Paste>Values because PasteSpecia>Values is such a common action to perform on a worksheet that they decided to eliminate making the user interact with the dialog box just to do it. Note: Paste>Special was added to Excel at version 2007. read less
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Excel terms - Paste and paste special are two different features. Paste is a feature that lets users cut or copy items from a document and transfer them to another. Paste Special allows the items being transferred to be formatted in several different ways.
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By paste you simply paste the content with the formatting. By paste special you can change the formatting options....
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Paste means what ever you selected in copy and paste special means different types formulas values comments validation different ways you can paste.
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Paste option will just paste the copied cell contents as it is, using paste special you can paste the contents of cells in 17 different ways: ex: paste values will only paste the values or contents of the cell without any formats (plain text).
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