Pasting "as displayed" formatted cell contents

[jimqual7]

I have formatted cells as follows "CN"00000000"S10" so that when I type in a
serial number such as 12345678 it appears in the cell as CN12345678S10.
How can I copy the contents as it appears in the the formatted cell and
paste the "as displayed value" into another cell without formatting the
destination cell?
In effect pasting the value CN12345678S10 into another cell.

 

[Mike H]

Try

Edit|Pastespecial
select ALL
OK

Mike

 

[jimqual7]

nope, that doesn't work

Try

Edit|Pastespecial
select ALL
OK

Mike

 

[Jim Thomlinson]

There is no silver bullet on that one. What is actually stored is 12345678 so
that is what is copied. The CN and S10 are just formatting. Short of copying
the cell formatting where the extra characters are stored you are hooped...

 

[Dave Peterson]

Mike's suggestion worked fine for me.

It didn't change the underlying value, but by paste special|all, both the value
and the numberformat were pasted. So the text displayed the same thing.

What didn't work for you?

 

[jimqual7]

I clicked on a formatted cell chose a blank cell and pasted "all". it pasted
only the numerica and not the formatting.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I could do a plain old copy|paste and all the formatting--including the number
formatting--got carried over.

I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you.