A4 Accounting

Pasting a Filtered List in a Formatted Table

I have been recently working with some very large (500,000+ rows) tables. As part of the process I had to filter one Formatted Table, copy it and then paste it in another Formatted Table. Excel would sit there processing for a long time – but I found a technique to speed up the process.

After you copy the filtered list, simply paste it in a blank sheet. This is virtually instantaneous. Then copy that interim list and paste in the other Formatted Table – again almost instantaneous. Two quick pastes is a lot quicker than paste and wait.

In case you didn’t know, when you copy a filtered list, you only copy the visible cells – the filtered ones. The hidden cells are omitted from the copy.

So if you are experiencing delays in the pasting of a filtered list, just use an interim paste and then another copy to speed up your copy and paste.

For more information on Formatted Tables, check out the links below.

Format As Table in Excel Part 1

Excel Format as Table Part 2 [VIDEO]