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I have a table in a document, in Word 2010.
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How can I copy and paste a cell? The whole cell, not its content.
Navigate over to Microsoft Office, Word, Pages, or your word processor of choice, and paste with Command+V into the document and save as usual You can also use Command+A for Select All, if you wish to attempt to copy the entire document contents. Paste Text the Way You Want. When you paste text using Ctrl+V, Word defaults to pasting both the text and any formatting applied to that text. This means that the text will look like it did in the original location.
Best flatbed feed scanner for mac 2017. To copy formatting to multiple blocks of text and/or images, double-click the “Format Painter” button. Then, you can apply that formatting to other areas of your document. To stop copying formatting, click the “Format Painter” button once more or press the “Esc” key. The easiest way is to click in the cell and press ctrl-a then copy. If the paste doesn't do what you expect, check what you've set the default paste to. You can, of course, control the paste type after you paste or you can do a paste special. Let's take a look at how to insert a PDF into a word document. Insert PDF into Word for Free Within your word document, you can insert a PDF file as an object. While you might be able to open it, view it, and resize it, you can't edit it. Here's how to embed PDF in word. Insert PDF to Word While working on your document, click 'Insert' > 'Object'.
I copy a cell, it has a grey background with hatching ('shading'). Then I paste it over some other cell in my table. Word stupidly loses the formatting. The destination cell is still white.
I have tried the various 'paste options' that are proposed at right click. To no avail.
Is there a solution?
Thank you.
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You need to copy the content of the cell not the cell itself. This takes a bit of practice and is mightily annoying!
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If you see the grey, you've selected too much. The easiest way is to click in the cell and press ctrl-a then copy. If the paste doesn't do what you expect, check what you've set the default paste to. You can, of course, control the paste type after you paste or you can do a paste special.
UPDATE: Oops! Never noticed that ctrl-a selects everything and I've been using Word for decades!
As an alternative. Click at the start of the cell, then shift-end. Then still holding down shift, use the back arrow to go back one. That last part is important as it changes from selecting the cell to selecting the content. I actually tried it this time so hopefully no more embarrassments.
UPDATE 2: Now that we know you want to copy the format and not the content, we can focus on the best way to do that. Which is to create a style and apply the style to all the cells you want to have the same style. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to a style to make things even easier.
UPDATE 3: Just to be absolutely clear. The format for a paragraph is contained in the (normally hidden) end paragraph mark. It is this that is selected when you do shift-end, turn on visible paragraph marks to see this more clearly. In a table, this changes to a cell marker rather than a paragraph on. To copy the formatting for a paragraph (or cell), you have to include that mark in your selection.
To Turn a formatted cell into a style, show the style panel, select the cell, click on the 'New Style' button. The resulting new style dialogue should already be formatted as per the cell. Give this a name and set the shortcut. Save the style to normal.dot if you want it always available otherwise save it to the document. Now in any cell, simply select your style (no need to select the cell) and the cell will be formatted accordingly.
The 'extra thought' is a one-off and need never be repeated if you save the style in normal.dot (the default Word template).
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After trying and playing with the same subject find out the very strange behaviour of Word:
- select cell
- copy cell
- move to another cell
- paste (special - cell with formatting)
*) result - the content is copied, but the format (shading, borders still old properties) - paste (special - cell with formatting)
*) simply repeat the paste command second time
**) result - formatting is also copied, new cell has new properties (shading, border style)
I assume that this is a strange feature of Word.
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