Can't Paste Special Values

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Ima_learnin'

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Hello All,
I’m doing a simple copy and paste special values of a range from one sheet in one workbook to another sheet in a different workbook. The sheets are set up identically. If I do a regular copy paste the data drops, however I need to paste special values. When I do the Paste special values I get the following Pop Up Warning –

This operation requires the merged cells to be identically sized.

I couldn’t find anything about this and not sure why I’m getting it, but it stops me from pasting specials values.

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Ima_Learnin’
 

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Have you tried just selecting a single cell for the paste operation?

I find that this works rather than selecting an area.

Sometimes you may have to create a new sheet before you do this as the identically sized message creates a default paste error
 
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Thanks guys...Luckily the merged cells were not extremely important to the file and I was to do away with them. Once I got rid of the merged cells it worked fine.

I still find it stange and annoying that I couldn't paste special values.

Thanks Anyway,
Ima_Learnin'
 
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