Paste Special (Spreadsheet)
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This dialog allows you to paste the contents of the clipboard to the spreadsheet cells using a number of rules to specify which cells the data is pasted in to.

Skip empty items in clipboard

Skip over any empty/blank/missing items in the clipboard, and do not paste these to cells. The cell position in the spreadsheet is not advanced, so that the next non-missing item in the clipboard is written to the current cell.

Transpose clipboard items

Read the clipboard items column by column, rather than the default row by row order.

Overwrite cells with missing values

If this item is checked, an empty item on the clipboard will be pasted to a cell, creating a missing value in that cell. If it is not checked the cell will not be changed.

Only Fill missing cells in spreadsheet

When this option is checked, the item from the clipboard is only written to the spreadsheet when the spreadsheet cell contains a missing value.

Stop at the end of the first column/row

Only fill the first column in column by column mode (or row in row by row mode), and then stop.

Goto to top of next column/row

If multiple columns/rows are being filled (the above item is not checked), then having this item checked, will cause the paste operation to go to the top of the next column on reaching the end of the current column. If this is not checked, the paste operation will go to the cell in the next column which is in the same row as starting cell.

Only advance clipboard on writing next cell

When this option is checked, the current item on the clipboard is kept for the next insertion until the combinations of the other options allow it to be written. For example, if the Only Fill missing cells option is set, and this option is also set, the clipboard contents will be used one by one to fill the missing cells. If this option was not set, then the clipboard item would be skipped, unless it coincided with a missing cell.

Fill cells

These three options control the order that the cells in the spreadsheet are filled.

Case of Text

These three options control whether the case of any text being pasted to the cells is modified.

OK

Paste the clipboard to the spreadsheet using the options specified.

Cancel

Do not paste the text from the clipboard.

See Also

Spreadsheet Column Fill
Edit Menu Commands (Spreadsheet)