I was using dates and wanted to copy only the day of the week in order to
analyse frequency of days of the week. Paste special only allows the copying
of values, not of text.

Eg. Tuesday gets copied as 38412 and 38440 (depending on the rest of the
date) and all I want is "Tuesday"

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