How to Copy From the Internet and Paste Into Excel. Microsoft Excel accepts data input from your keyboard, through file import and by pasting the contents of your computer clipboard into a worksheet.

You cannot paste the transposed cells onto cells that overlap the copied column. That means you cannot copy an entire column by clicking a column header and copy it into an entire row; instead ...

To copy columns from one Excel spreadsheet to another, you need to click on the column name first in the source file. Then, open the destination file and press Ctrl+V.

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.