You should create a paste special values macro like this and assign a
keystroke to it (via Tools, Macro, Macros, pick macro, Properties).

Sub DoPasteValues()
ActiveCell.PasteSpecial xlValues
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End Sub


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Jim
"richzip" wrote in message
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|I have 2 worksheets: one large one with data for several employees, and a
| smaller one that will be sent to individual employees. I have the smaller
| worksheet formatted in an easy to read format, and will be copying data
from
| the larger worksheet to the smaller one.
|
| When copying the data to the smaller worksheet, the formatting I
customized
| gets written over by the formatting from the larger worksheet. I know I
can
| use "paste special" to only copy the values and not the format. However,
is
| there a way to make this the "default" option for pasting so that I can
use
| "alt-V" instead of right clicking?