See solution in other versions of Excel:. Question: In Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac, how do I copy the entries of a series of cells and paste only non-blank cells? Paste special then skip blank option doesn't seem to work. Answer: Unfortunately, there isn't a simple solution to this question.
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The following example demonstrates how to copy and paste only nonblank cells. First, highlight all of the cells (including both blank and nonblank cells) that you wish to paste. In this example, we've highlighted cells A1 to A8.
Next, select the Data tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen and click on the Filter button (see gray highlighted button in picture below). A drop-down should appear in the first cell of your range. Click on this drop-down. De-select the (Blanks) option and then click on the X in the top left of the popup menu.
Your spreadsheet should now only display nonblank cells. Next, copy the data using Command-C.
Then paste the data using Command-V. In this example, we've chosen to paste the nonblank cells into Sheet2.
Hey Doctor Q I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for, but you might want to try the GoTo command (found in the Edit menu). If you select the column and then EditGoToSpecial you then have the option to find blank cells or cells that contain an error, etc.
If that's not it try using DataAutoFilter and have it select all the cells that are comming up #value or #error! (or whatever the message is). The only other method I can think of to easily identify an error easily is with conditional formatting; it's possible to have the cell to appear red when there's an error. I hope this helps!
Hey Doctor Q I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for, but you might want to try the GoTo command (found in the Edit menu). If you select the column and then EditGoToSpecial you then have the option to find blank cells or cells that contain an error, etc. If that's not it try using DataAutoFilter and have it select all the cells that are comming up #value or #error! (or whatever the message is). The only other method I can think of to easily identify an error easily is with conditional formatting; it's possible to have the cell to appear red when there's an error. Click to expand.Thanks for the tips.
None of them quite solve my problem, which is to find the next cell below the current cell that has other than an empty string as its value, with as little trouble as possible. I've noticed that you can do conditional formatting, but I've never used it because I'm usually more interested in content than presentation. But you are right that conditional formatting could also be used to make it easier to spot certain cells. However, I'd never use red, since. In fact, that's sometimes a problem when others show me a spreadsheet they created, using red for negative numbers.
Click to expand. Good news you still have options! If auto filter isn't quite what you're looking for, I'm going to assume that you still want to see all entries on your spreadsheet as you are going down to the next error.
(SIDE NOTE: If all you want to see are the errors then autofilter is the easiest). At any rate to be able to 'command-arrow' down the list you'll have to do a combination of things:. Copy and PasteSpecialvalues the column with your if statment (copy it into a new column if you don't want to get rid of the formula). Use Autofilter to show all the blank cells in the recently copied column DataFilterAutofilterCustom equals to in the first drop down list (default I think) and '(Blanks)' in the second drop down list (it's 2nd last on the list that appears). Select all the Blank cells in the column you filtered on. Select EditClearContents (delete key works too) to get rid of all the double quotes.
Remove the filter by unselecting DataFilterAutoFilter. Go to the top of the spreadsheet and start using command-arrow down! Writing out all the steps probably took me about 50 times longer to write than it would have to just do it. I do this kind of stuff all the time, though it is combersome to explain it's a quick and painless process.
Good Luck Oh and as for conditional formatting you can choose other colours, font styles, sizes, etc. And now that you mention it I do use red to indicate negitive numbers, but I always use the red and bracketed number format to show negitive values.
Now I've got a reason to do it! Just thought of a couple of options if you want to keep the formulae in place and attempt to fix them so don't want to paste special. If you're unlikely to have a # in your results, you can just do a Find for the character # since all errors start with it. So long as you select 'values' rather than formulas, that should work and clicking Next would move you through. Or Find All would find all of em so you could work through them.
Alternatively, if there might be # in your values, you could put an if(iserror formula in where the 'true' statement is a word/character that's not going to come up in your normal results like 'ERROR'. So if your formula was say SUM(A1 3333) and it was throwing up a #VALUE message, you'd put in the following =if(iserror(sum(A1 3333)),'ERROR',sum(A1 3333)) Then you could just do a Find (on values rather than formulas) for the word ERROR - which would let you just keep clicking the next button til it found the next ERROR.
EDIT: Giggling at vbulletin adding a in the middle of the formulas rather than a.