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LarryN

Original cell formatting clears when I move contents
 
Whenever I move the contents of a cell, the formatting (e.g., borders) of the
original cell clears. How do I stop this from happening? I'm using Excel 2007
but it also happens in 2003.

Thanks

Mike

Original cell formatting clears when I move contents
 
If I'm assuming correctly that you are copying and pasting values from a
preformatted sheet and don't want the formatting to move with the values, you
can copy and instead of pasting, select "paste as . .", and paste as "value".
If you are dragging for an auto fill effect, you will get a little box near
the bottom of your destination cells. select that and you can choose "fill
without formatting" to transfer only the values.


"LarryN" wrote:

Whenever I move the contents of a cell, the formatting (e.g., borders) of the
original cell clears. How do I stop this from happening? I'm using Excel 2007
but it also happens in 2003.

Thanks


LarryN

Original cell formatting clears when I move contents
 
Thanks for the reply, but it's the formatting in the call that I'm cutting
values FROM that is getting changed. e.g., if I have a border around a cell
and then move the content of that cell somewhere else, the border on the
original cell goes away. I'd like it to stay.

- Larry

"mike" wrote:

If I'm assuming correctly that you are copying and pasting values from a
preformatted sheet and don't want the formatting to move with the values, you
can copy and instead of pasting, select "paste as . .", and paste as "value".
If you are dragging for an auto fill effect, you will get a little box near
the bottom of your destination cells. select that and you can choose "fill
without formatting" to transfer only the values.


"LarryN" wrote:

Whenever I move the contents of a cell, the formatting (e.g., borders) of the
original cell clears. How do I stop this from happening? I'm using Excel 2007
but it also happens in 2003.

Thanks



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