What are Excel Paste Special shortcuts?

There is an extra Special Paste option in Excel and we are discussing the shortcuts to access this Special paste option.

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What is Paste Special?

Paste Special is a function in Excel that allows users to paste a range of cells with the same value. Paste Special can be used in many different ways, from copying formulas from cells to pasting text or values from one column to another. Manage your pasted content with Paste Special in productivity software programs like Microsoft Office. A common feature of productivity software which, out of many more features available, allows for extra control when pasting text from the clipboard. It is very commonly used in Microsoft Word and Excel to offer special formatting or calculations when pasting content right into a document Paste Special allows you several choices of how to format text when pasted. The Paste Special command is available on the Home ribbon, which you can access by clicking the File tab and then clicking Options.

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How to Access Excel Paste Option?

To start with, you need to copy your desired cells and paste them. When you copy it, the following are three distinct ways of getting to paste unique in Excel.

Paste Special Options –

• Paste Values from Cells: Select this option to paste values from a single cell.
• Paste Values from Range: Select this option to paste values from a range of cells.
• Paste Values from Table: Select this option to paste values from a table.
• Paste Values from Clipboard: Select this option to paste values from the clipboard.
• Paste Values as Hyperlink: Select this option to enable Excel to create hyperlinks to cells or ranges in the work
• Paste Formula only (without text/values)
• Paste format only
• Paste comments and notes
• Paste validation
• Paste All using source theme
• Paste All except borders
• Paste column widths
• Paste formulas and number formats
• Paste values and number format, without formula
• Paste operations like Add, Substract, Multiply & Divide
• Paste without blank cells
• Paste with transpose data in Excel

• Keyboard Shortcut Method: For using Excel Paste Special Shortcut press – Alt + E + S + V.
• Right-click Menu Method: Right Click in the cell which you want to paste, and then select paste special.