Chapter 1 - Excel - McGraw-Hill

After you select and cut cells, the cells are placed on the Clipboard. To place the contents
of the Clipboard in the spreadsheet, use the Paste command. There are three ways to move text
using Cut and Paste.
• Ribbon buttons: Cut and Paste buttons [Home tab, Clipboard group]
• Shortcut commands: Ctrl+X to cut and Ctrl+V to paste
• Context menu: Right-click a cell or range of cells to display the context menu, and click Cut.
HOW TO: Move Cell Contents Using Cut and Paste
1. Select the cell or cell range you want to move.
2. Click Cut [Home tab, Clipboard group]. A moving border appears around
the selected source cell or cell range (Figure 1-15).
• If you choose not to move data, press Esc to remove the moving border.
3. Select the destination cell location.
• Click the cell in the top left of the range where you want to paste.
4. Click Paste [Home tab, Clipboard group].
• If the destination cell or cell range is not empty, pasted data overwrites
existing data. To prevent loss of data, use Insert Cut Cells [Home tab,
Insert group].
• You can paste data that you cut only one time.
1-15 Moving cell contents using
Cut and Paste
ANOTHER WAY
Press Ctrl+X to cut or right-click the cell and select Cut from the context menu. Alternatively, you
can press Ctrl+V to paste or right-click the destination cell and select Paste from the context menu.
Office Clipboard
The Office Clipboard stores cut or copied data from Excel or other Office applications, and
the data stored on the Clipboard is available to Excel or to other applications such as Word
and PowerPoint. The Clipboard
can hold up to 24 items. Click
the Clipboard launcher to open
the Clipboard pane. Each time
you cut or copy, the item appears
at the top of the Clipboard pane.
You can paste one item from the
Clipboard or paste the entire contents
of the Clipboard.
HOW TO: Use the Office Clipboard
1. Click the Home tab.
2. Click the Clipboard launcher to display the
Clipboard pane (Figure 1-16).
3. Click Clear All to empty the Clipboard. 1-16 Clipboard pane
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