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How to copy and paste skip blank cells in Excel?

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-08-05

Normally, when we copy some data cells in Range A which contains blanks and paste them into another Range B, the blank cells will be pasted as well, and the original data of the Range B will be missed. See following screenshots:

a screenshot showing the original data a screenshot of an arrow a screenshot showing the pasting result skipping blank cells

This will be annoying for us to miss some data, to avoid this, Excel provides a feature – Skip blanks for us to solve this problem.

Copy and paste skip blank cells with Paste Special function

Copy and paste skip blank cells with Paste Special function

The Skip blanks feature in Excel allows us to copy a data range with blank cells and paste the data within another area without overwriting the existing data with blanks. Please do with following steps:

1. Select the data range that you want to copy, and then press Ctrl + C to copy it.

2. Then select another range or cell that you need to paste the data, and then right click, choose Paste Special > Paste Special from the context menu, see screenshot:

a screenshot of opening the Paste Special dialog box

3. In the Paste Special dialog box, check Skip blanks option, see screenshot:

a screenshot of selecting the Skip blanks option

4. Then click OK button, and your copied data of Range A has been pasted to Range B without the blank cells. See screenshot:

a screenshot of pasted results

Related article:

How to copy and paste only non-blank cells in Excel?

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