To copy only visible cells in Excel or Google Sheets, use the 'Visible cells only' feature, or apply filters to hide data. We show you how!

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.

Thats strange, because when I filter then copy rows in Excel 2007, it only copies the selected rows, not the hidden values.<BR><BR>This is Office 2007 SP1, BTW.

Method for Excel 2010 For Excel 2010, right-click on the cell that contains the conditional formatting to move to other cells. Click Copy from the pop-up menu.

Click the upper-left cell in the range with the border you want to copy. Drag your cursor to the range's lower-right cell, selecting the entire range. Click "Home" on Excel's menu bar.