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> - It forgets what you've copied to clipboard. Copy something. Insert another row so that there's space for it. Paste. Nothing happens. Huh? It lost my copy. It does this for a large number of operations and it drives me crazy. I've never seen any other program do this.

Try 'WindowsKey + V'.

It'll bring up a list of your previous copies. Not as easy as 'Ctrl+V', of course, but it does save a bit of time. And yes I agree, Excel's Alzheimer's is quite annoying.



One of those things that I wouldn’t google myself as it’s a minor annoyance and yet when I see a tip like this it definitely makes me feel good about the time I spend on HN :D


Mind ... blown ...


Is there a mac version? I tried a few combos of cmd/control but no dice


Whoah.




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