This was the best interface I could come up with, so I hope you like it. From any worksheet in your workbook, press ALT+F11 to go into the VB editor and, once there, click Insert/Module on its Menu Bar, then copy/paste the following code into the code window that opened up…

That’s it. Go back to any sheet with data that you want to copy, select the cells you want to copy (this selection can be any combination of contiguous and non-contiguous ranges from any columns. rows or rectangular ranges of rows and columns) and press ALT+F8 to bring up the macro dialog box. Select CopyToSameAddress from the list and click the Run button. A dialog box will appear asking you to go to the worksheet you want to copy the cells to and select any cell on that worksheet and click the OK button. Your cells were just copied to the sheet whose cell you selected in response to the dialog box question.

Thanx Rick, the source is always user selected and can change. The copy could be any other sheet in the workbook, not always sheet 2. Sheet to paste on is determined at the time of paste. Thank you once again, appreciated.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do what you want without using some kind of VB code. If you tell us whether the source will always be user selected, or is it always a specific set of cells, and whether the copy will always be placed on Sheet2, or if the sheet is to be determined at the time of the copying, then we can design the code for you and tell you how to install it in your workbook.

You didn’t give us any specifics, so you will have to modify this general approach. Assuming your non-contiguous cells are the Selection (replace Selection with a reference to your actual non-contiguous range), give code structured like this a try…

Dim A As Range, Cell As Range
For Each A In Selection.Areas
A.Copy Worksheets(“YourOtherSheet”).Cells(A(1).Row, A(1).Column)
Next

I need to select one entire row, page down to find another item i want select it and do this for several pages then copy paste it.

I still get cannot copy multiple selections, well its going to be a long day!

Honestly I came from the Lotus 123 days and one thing I can say about the Lotus people, even the quatro and aseasy 123 people – they fixed there bugs.

Sometimes CTRL-Select works, sometimes it doesn’t what type of logic is this, I really like to know what is behind the scenes on this program issue?, is it because Microsoft when in doubt uses the random number generator to determine if the function should do what it was designed to do when the program fails!

You see I understand some MS issues like sorting numbers and Alpha in the DIR (dos based) environment that they did not fix in the windows versions that followed, I have clients who can never get use to the problem where number 20 is sorted before 3, they could have at the very least added a switch to make windows act like it knows numbers, but I know deep down inside where the problem lies and even I can’t find an easy effective fix.

But this absolutely silly, time wasting issue that follows us from version to version of excel just does not get addressed, and people have dozens and dozens of macros to circumvent the problem.

The Excel GURU John Walkenbach suggest the F8 trick, what does that tell you?, even a genius who probably has a repore with Microsoft has to concoct an “extra Keystroke” slower method to get around such an apparently simply issue.

Someone tell me for the sake of my sanity why MS can’t fix this “multiple selection” issue, so that maybe I will go back to hacking and write a patch to fix it (and remove excel’s license check as well) – you see I’ve got some more serious array issues to discus after I fix this one.

Duf