So, open the Excel file, highlight the relevant data, right-click, and select Copy. Click Ctrl+N to open a new blank workbook, and choose Paste Special to remove the formatting.

When we copy data from another Excel file to a new Excel file, formatting combinations are also copied along with the data. The empty or unused cells in your Excel file may have such combinations.

Often we need to carry out manipulations in Excel documents and apply them to multiple rows, columns and sheets. To do this manually takes too much time and allows for errors to creep in, so Excel ...

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.