Comments on: Excel: Make Paste Special Default

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:29:31 +0000

I find using the hotkeys to be a really good alternative. Next to right control there is a “right click” key, I press that, then “c”, then “v”. It will do the trick of paste special values and still have the undo option, and once you get used to it its basically just as fast as hitting “ctrl+v”.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:01:51 +0000

Beware when using this tip that there is no undo for macros, so if you paste over something, it’s gone unless you close the file without saving your changes. Paste->Special->Values should really be the default, but that’s what we get for using Excel to do numerical analysis.

By: LTar

LTar — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:24:28 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It works very well, even if I’d hoped for a setting in Excel to change this behaviour.