Excel vba macro paste special. Expressionpastespecial paste operation skipblanks transpose. Paste special is one of the features of microsoft office suite. The most commonly used paste special is paste values in order to remove all the formula. This entry has been viewed 144 times.
Paste values and number formats in a type of paste special also keeps the formatting of the numbers. Using the copypastespecial method this is the vba code version of how you would manually paste values only in excel with your mouse and keyboard. The code is simply copying a range and pasting the values only in a destination range. Excel vba paste there are three different ways to paste some data from place to another in a worksheet using vba the first method is to normally refer the values from one cell to another cell using the assignment operator another method is by using the paste function and third method is by using the pastespecial function.
In excel vba paste speical is done through rangepastespecial method. Close the vbe save the file if desired. Pastes a range object that has been copied into the specified range. Psaddzip 734kb approved by mdmackillop.
Ms excel permits you to paste only specific aspects of cell data by using the paste special feature. Paste special is a worksheet function which is also used in vba. In excel the paste special menu can be accessed with the shortcut ctrl alt v after copying a cell. For example if you need the results of a formula but not the formula itself you can choose to paste only the values calculated as the result of the formula.
Here you can see all the combinations of cell properties that you can paste. Expression a variable that represents a range object. If you record a macro while using the paste special menu you can simply use the generated code. Copying the things in excel is not a strange thing for excel users they copy paste and most of the time they use paste special to serve their purpose in many ways.
2 minutes to read. Paste the code into the right hand code window. Tools macro macros and double click psadd sample file. Like regular excel paste special in vba too we have paste special method to paste the copied data.
But paste special is the advanced thing in excel. Paste special does not paste the formulas it only copies the value generated by the formulas.