Hi Chris,

I think the short answer is "no". What you might consider doing though is
to use a temporary sheet that you paste into and then copy/move the pasted
data into the cells where you want it and then and then delete the temporary
sheet.

HTH

Peter Beach

"Chris W." wrote in message
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Using Excel 2000:
Is there anyway to stop Excel's Paste method from taking multiline data
thats been put onto the clipboard and spreading it across multiple cells. I
need to copy large chunks of text and graphics and paste into distinct cells
for later retrieval.