When you copy a merged cell, select a destination cell or range of cells, and then use the Paste Special command, Microsoft Excel may fail to apply the merged cell format to the destination cell range.
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This behavior occurs when the following conditions are true:
| � | You select a merged cell that contains data.
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| � | You click Copy on the Edit menu, select a destination cell or cell range, and click Paste Special on the Edit menu.
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| � | You select Values or Formulas in the Paste Special dialog box, and click OK. |
NOTE: When you use the
Paste Special command to paste formulas or values in a merged cell, Excel pastes the same values that would result had you removed the merge format from the cells before you copied them.
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A merged cell is created by combining two or more selected cells. Excel places the upper-leftmost data in the selected range into the
resulting merged cell. The value is positioned in the lower-left cell. For example, if you merge cells A1:A3 (assuming all cells contain a value), A3 contains the value of the merged cell (which is the value in cell A1), and cells A1 and A2 are empty.
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For more information about merging cells, click Microsoft Excel Help on the
Help menu, type merging cells in the Office Assistant or
the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics
returned.
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