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Wed 20 May 2015, 22:05 Delegate Adrian said...

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Excel - Pasting Data without overriding Formulas

Hi

A simple question, but I am struggling with an answer.

I have an Excel spreadsheet in which I have typed 2 similar formulas in lets say column D and F that compare data in 1 tab vs another tab. I have a report that outputs in to excel format that I want to paste data from in to the spreadsheet containing the formulas. The report data has columns D and F blank to allow the formulas to calculate. My problem is, that when pasting the data from one spreadsheet in to the other, it overwrite these formulas and so the cells in D and F become blank. Is there a way to either, prevent the data from Overwriting the formulas, or to hard code those formulas so they can't be overwritten? I know i could run the calculations out of A and B and paste the data from Row C onwards, but its not as tidy and loses some of the critical data from the initial view.

Your help would be much appreciated, many thanks.

Thu 21 May 2015, 10:34 Trainer Jens said...

RE: Excel - Pasting Data without overriding Formulas

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for the forum question.

I hope that, I understand you right but to me it sounds like the Paste special option "Skip Blanks" can do what you need. Copy the range you want to copy, click in the first cell in the destination worksheet, on the home tab click on the paste down arrow and click on the last option paste special. In the paste special dialog box click skip blanks.

Please let me know if this is not what you are looking for.

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Thu 21 May 2015, 12:03 Delegate Adrian said...

RE: Excel - Pasting Data without overriding Formulas

thank you so much!!

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