Paul Barnhurst asks a guest about their favorite Excel shortcut. They pick paste-special values (Alt+E+S+V) to strip formulas and keep only numbers. The guest argues standard shortcuts beat custom ones because they work everywhere and everyone knows them.
What's your favorite Excel shortcut?
I know people say this a lot, but it is Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. If I had to choose one, I'll go Ctrl+C.
That works. Last guest had Alt+E+S+V, so paste special values.
Yeah, but you sometimes don't want the values, sometimes you want the formulas.
That is true, but they first gave me a custom shortcut. I'm like, no, no, you gotta give me one of the standards.
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