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

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.

If you have a bunch of rows or columns in Excel that need to be updated with a math operation, instead of applying a formula or editing each cell, save some time by using Paste Special. The ...

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.

The Paste Special dialog box opens and displays several pasting options.Click "Validation" followed by "OK." Excel copies the drop-down list to the cells you selected.

VIDEO: "Paste Special" in Excel does much more than just paste values - it can help you sort data too.

Microsoft Excel can be very beneficial to our lives, but sometimes errors can occur, especially if you want to paste values on an Excel cell, workbook, or datasheet and you cannot paste data.