What are you wanting to do? Does your data have merged cells? If yes, that
could be your problem. You cannot paste data from a merged cell range into
a non-merged cells range. Both ranges have to be the same if a merged range
is involved.
Post back with more detail about what you have, what you want to do, and
how you want to do it. HTH Otto
"Ian" wrote in message
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I'm getting this error message when trying to paste data "microsoft office
excel cannot paste the data"

please help....

thanks............