Which of the following is the keyboard shortcut key combination for pasting data?
Home / Excel Keyboard Shortcuts / Paste Values (Excel Shortcut) In Excel, copy and paste is a very common task that everyone
performs, and whenever a user copies the data and pastes the same, Excel not only pastes the values but formatting and formula as well. But Excel also has the option to paste the data as values only, which means with that option, only the value would be pasted and formatting and formula will get eliminated. There are multiple shortcuts and key combinations to paste the data as value only in Excel, but in this tutorial, we have explained the quickest and easy shortcuts for you. In
Excel, the quickest and easy shortcuts for paste values are mentioned below: Alt → H → V → V Ctrl + Alt + Vand then V → Enter Steps to Paste Values Using Keyboard Shortcut
The tutorial explains how to use Paste Special in Excel and how to make the process more efficient by using paste special shortcuts to paste values, formulas, comments, formats, column width, and more. Copy pasting in Excel is easy. I believe everyone knows the shortcut to copy a cell (Ctrl+C) and to paste it (Ctrl+V). But did you know that apart from pasting a whole cell, you can paste only a certain attribute such as value, formula, formatting or comment? That's where Paste Special comes in. Excel Paste Special makes the pasting operation smoother by letting you choose which formatting (source or destination) to keep or by stripping all formatting and just pasting the values or formulas. What is Paste Special in Excel?In situations where a standard copy / paste in not appropriate, Excel's Paste Special offers a wide range of options to paste only specific elements of the copied cells or perform a mathematical operation with the copied data. For example, you can copy formula-driven data and paste only the calculated values in the same or different cells. Or, you can copy the width of one column and apply it to all other columns in your data set. Or, you can transpose the copied range, i.e. convert rows to columns and vice versa. The following screenshot demonstrates all available Paste Special options: All of the Paste Special commands work within the same worksheet as well as across different sheets and workbooks. How to paste special in ExcelThe use of Paste Special in Excel boils down to the following:
Yep, it's that simple! 3 ways to access Paste Special in ExcelUsually, Microsoft Excel provides a numbers of ways to utilize the same feature, and Paste Special is no different. You can access its features via the ribbon, right-click menu and keyboard shortcuts. 1. Paste Special button on the ribbonThe most obvious way to open the Paste Special dialog is clicking Paste > Paste Special on the Home tab, in
the Clipboard group: 2. Paste Special command in the right-click menuAlternatively, you can right-click a cell where you want to paste the copied data, and then click Paste Special in the context menu. As you may have noticed, 6 most popular paste options appear directly in the pop-up menu, under Paste Options: paste everything (equivalent of CTRL + V), paste values, paste formulas, transpose, paste formatting, and
paste link: If you start hovering over the Paste Special… item in the context menu, a fly-out menu will show up offering 14 more paste options: To find out what a particular icon does, hover over it. A hit will pop up and Live Preview will take over enabling you to see the paste effect straight away. This method is especially useful when you have just started learning the feature. For example, if you hover over the paste transpose icon, you will see a preview of how exactly the copied data will be transposed: Tip. If you are not a right-click kind of person and prefer having your hands on the keyboard most of the time, you can open the context menu by pressing the Shift+F10 shortcut or context menu key instead of right-clicking the target cell. On most keyboards, the context menu key is located to the right of the spacebar, between Alt and Ctrl.3. Shortcut for Paste SpecialThe fastest way to paste a specific aspect of the copied data in Excel is using one of the following shortcuts.
Both of the above shortcuts open Excel's Paste Special dialog, where you can select the desired option with the mouse or hit a corresponding shortcut key. In the following section, you will find a full list of available paste options and their shortcut keys. Excel Paste Special shortcut keysAs you already know, Excel's Paste Special dialog can be opened via the Ctrl+Alt+V shortcut combination. After that, you can pick a specific paste option by pressing just one letter key on your keyboard. Please pay attention that a shortcut key for paste special works only when the Paste Special dialog is already open, and some data has previously been copied to the clipboard.
At first sight, this seems like a lot of keystrokes to remember, but with just a little practice you will be able to paste special in Excel faster than an average user can reach for the mouse. To begin with, you can learn the paste special values shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+V, then V) that you would probably use several times a day. If you happen to forget a shortcut key, just have a look at the required option in the Paste
Special dialog and notice an underlined letter. As you can remember, the paste values shortcut key is V and this letter is underlined in "Values". Tip. More helpful keyboard shortcuts can be found in 30 most useful Excel keyboard shortcuts. Examples of using Paste Special in ExcelTo move from theory to practice, let's see some of the most popular paste special features in action. Simple and straightforward, these examples may still teach you a couple of unobvious uses. How to copy comments in ExcelIf you want to copy only the comments ignoring the cell values and formatting, proceed in this way:
As shown in the screenshot below, the comments are copied to the cells in another column (from column A to C), and all existing values in the destination cells are preserved. How to copy values in ExcelSupposing you've created a summary report from a number of sources, and now you need to send it to your client or supervisor. The report contains a bunch of formulas that pull information from other sheets, and even more formulas that calculate the source data. The question is - how do you send the report with final numbers without cluttering it with tons of initial data? By replacing the formulas with calculated values! The steps to only paste values in Excel follow below:
Done! The formulas are replaced with calculated values. Tip. If you are copying values to another range and want to keep the original number formats such as the currency symbols or the number of decimal places, press Ctrl+Alt+V, and then U to paste values and number formats. How to quickly transpose in ExcelThere are a few ways to change columns to rows in Excel, and the fastest one is using the Paste Transpose option. Here's how:
The result will look something similar to this: As you can see in the screenshot above, in the converted table, the original cell and number formats are nicely kept in place, a small but helpful touch! To learn other ways to transpose in Excel, please check out this tutorial: How to convert row to column and column to row in Excel. How to copy column width in ExcelThis example will teach you how to quickly set the desired width to all columns of your Excel table.
That's it! Only the column's width is copied to other columns, but not any data contained in the source column. How to copy a column's width as well as contentsQuite often, when copying data from one column to another you have to adjust the destination column's width manually to accommodate the new values. In this case, you may like the following way to copy the source data AND column width in one fell swoop.
The source data and the column's width are copied to another column in just a couple of mouse clicks! How to paste and add/subtract/multiply/divide at a timePerforming arithmetic
operations in Excel is easy. Usually, a simple equation like Example 1. Replacing percentages with calculated amountsSupposing, you have the amounts in column B and tax percentages in column C. Your task is to replace the tax % with the actual tax amount. The quickest way to have it done is this:
That's it! As shown in the screenshot below, a tax amount is calculated for each row, and the result of the operation is a value, not formula: By using the same approach, you can quickly increase or reduce an entire column of numbers by a certain percentage. In this case, you input the percentage formula such as Example 2. Removing multiple hyperlinks in ExcelThis very technique (paste and multiply) can be used to remove all hyperlinks in your worksheet in one go. A regular way of right clicking on each cell and then selecting Remove hyperlink would take forever. Instead, you can just multiply all those unwanted hyperlinks by 1. Sounds odd? That's only until you give it a try :) In summary, here's what you do:
That's all that it takes! All hyperlinks are removed along with the blue underlined formatting: Tip. If you want to keep the original links and copy the results (i.e. data without hyperlinks) to some other location, then do as follows: copy the hyperlinks, select the upper-left cell of the target range, and hit the Excel paste values shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+V, then V. For more information about this and other ways to get rid of hyperlinks in Excel, please see How remove multiple hyperlinks at a time. Paste Special not working in ExcelIf the Paste Special option is missing or not working properly in your Excel, it's likely to be because of one of the following reasons. Paste Special feature is disabledSymptoms: Paste Special does not appear in the right-click menu, the paste special shortcut does not work either. Solution: Enable Paste Special as demonstrated below. To turn on Paste Special, click File > Options > Advanced. Scroll down to the Cut, copy and paste section, and select the Show Paste Options button when content is pasted box: Third-party add-ins conflicting with Paste SpecialIf you have a lot of third-party add-ins installed in your Excel, chances are that one of them is causing the issue. To pin down the culprit, perform these steps:
This is how you use Paste Special in Excel. Now you know how many powerful features it provides and how you can leverage these features in your worksheets. I thank you for reading and hope to see you on our blog next week! You may also be interested inWhat is the keyboard shortcut for paste text?Scroll down the Categories list in the top left and select Macros. Choose PlainPaste (or whatever you named the macro) in the right pane, click in the "Press new shortcut key" box, type Ctrl-t (or the unused key combination of your choice, beginning with Ctrl, Alt, and/or Shift), select Assign and then Close twice.
Which key combination is used to pasting the object?Paste (Ctrl + V)
As a recap, both Ctrl + X and Ctrl + C copy text to the clipboard, only the former shortcut removes the copied text from the document; the latter doesn't.
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