This month’s column walks you through all the special ways you can paste text, data, and even application capabilities in Excel.

Learn how to remove formula in Excel and keep the text. Use Paste Special option to delete formulas without removing values in Excel.

Use Excel's Paste Special feature to calculate multiple values against a data range, at the same time. You can make the process even more efficient with keyboard shortcut combinations.

Excel's Paste Special function can do just that by first copying the value for which to base the increase and then increasing the existing data in place.

How to Copy From the Internet and Paste Into Excel. Microsoft Excel accepts data input from your keyboard, through file import and by pasting the contents of your computer clipboard into a worksheet.