How to copy only visible cells in Excel Excel provides a built-in ‘ Go To Special – Visible Cells Only ‘ feature that selects only the visible cells within a selected data range.

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.

Cutting and pasting ranges of cells is a common operation in Excel, and Microsoft's Visual Basic offers streamlined functionality to easily automate the process.

Click and drag over the cell or range of cells that you want to receive the conditional formatting. Excel automatically copies the formatting into the range when you release the mouse button.