Mike's suggestion worked fine for me.

It didn't change the underlying value, but by paste special|all, both the value
and the numberformat were pasted. So the text displayed the same thing.

What didn't work for you?

jimqual7 wrote:

nope, that doesn't work

"Mike H" wrote:

Try

Edit|Pastespecial
select ALL
OK

Mike

"jimqual7" wrote:

I have formatted cells as follows "CN"00000000"S10" so that when I type in a
serial number such as 12345678 it appears in the cell as CN12345678S10.
How can I copy the contents as it appears in the the formatted cell and
paste the "as displayed value" into another cell without formatting the
destination cell?
In effect pasting the value CN12345678S10 into another cell.


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Dave Peterson