Quickly swap contents of two cells or ranges in Excel

Manually swap two adjoining cell contents

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Sometimes, there are two adjoining cells need to be swapped. We can manually do it easily. Look at the following screenshot, I want to swap cell A4 and B4, please do as follows:

1. Select the cell you want to swap. In this example, select cell A4.

2. Press Shift key, and put the cursor at the right border.

3. Then drag the cursor to the right border of cell B4.

4. When there displays “工”, release the mouse.

5. And the two cell contents have been swapped. See screenshot:

With this method, we can also swap two adjoining rows or columns.

Swap two nonadjacent cell contents with VBA code

When the two cells are nonadjacent, the above method will not work. We can swap them with VBA code.

1. Press the Ctrl key and select the two nonadjacent cells you want to swap.

2. Click Developer>Visual Basic, a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will be displayed, click Insert>Module, and input the following code into the Module:

Sub SwapTwoRange()
'Updateby20131120
Dim Rng1 As Range, Rng2 As Range
Dim arr1 As Variant, arr2 As Variant
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set Rng1 = Application.Selection
Set Rng1 = Application.InputBox("Range1:", xTitleId, Rng1.Address, Type:=8)
Set Rng2 = Application.InputBox("Range2:", xTitleId, Type:=8)
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
arr1 = Rng1.Value
arr2 = Rng2.Value
Rng1.Value = arr2
Rng2.Value = arr1
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

3. Then click button to run the code, then a dialog is displayed for you to select the two cells you want to swap between. See screenshots:

4. Click Ok in the popped-up dialog, the two selected cells are swapped. See screenshots:

Notes: This VBA code can’t swap the formatting of the two cells.

Swap two random cell contents with Kutools for Excel

With Kutools for Excel's Swap Ranges utility, we not only can swap two adjoining cells, rows or columns, but also can switch two nonadjacent cells, rows or columns easily.

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1. Click Kutools > Range > Swap Ranges, see screenshot:

2. In the Swap Ranges dialog box, you need to:

(1) click the first button in the Swap Range 1 box to select the cell that you like to swap.

(2) click the second button from Swap Range 2 box to select the cell you will swap with.

(3) Click the OK button.

Then two selected cells or ranges are swapped immediately. See screenshots:

Tip.If you want to have a free trial of this utility, please go to download the software freely first, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

Swap two random cell contents with Kutools for Excel

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  Chris · 2 years ago

  Cool trick that saved me a lot of time. Thank you!

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  Brandon · 2 years ago

  First option work well for me thanks for your efforts... :-)

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  Gene · 2 years ago

  Thanks !! works perfectly for me..

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  Anand · 2 years ago

  Thanks !! works perfectly for me..

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  Sreejith · 3 years ago

  Thank you for the information!!!

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