Copying material from the internet into your Excel spreadsheet can be easy. Or pretty difficult. It all depends on what exactly you're trying to copy and how you would like it to appear in your ...

It’s not easy to fool Excel, but with a few extra clicks, you can work around this odd pasting behavior. If you paste formatted values into a cell with another applied format, the pasted format wins.

As software has grown more sophisticated, there is more opportunity for users to mash up content between different programs. The Excel spreadsheet program, for example, used to handle only text and ...