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Visible Cells

Location: ribbon EGTools tab → Visible Cells group

A group of features for copying and pasting ranges under filters or hidden rows/columns. It consists of two split buttons — Copy (default action = Copy Visible Cells) and Paste (default action = Paste Values).

Copy Visible Cells

Picks only the visible cells of the selection, remembers them as the copy source and copies them to the clipboard.

  1. Select the range to copy and press the button. If the selection is not a cell range, the command exits silently.
  2. The visible cells of the selection — excluding cells hidden by filters or row/column hiding — are remembered as the copy source (workbook and sheet name plus the area addresses).
  3. The same area is also copied to the Excel clipboard (marching-ants border), so it can be pasted right away with a normal paste.

Copy Range

Remembers the entire selection (hidden cells included) as the copy source — remember only. Nothing is copied to the clipboard, so nothing changes on screen.

Paste Values / Formulas / All

Pastes the remembered copy source into the visible cells only of the current selection, in order. The three menu items differ only in what they paste — Paste Values (calculated values, the split button's default action), Paste Formulas and Paste All (values, formulas and formats).

How it runs

  1. First run Copy Visible Cells or Copy Range to remember a copy source.
  2. Select the target range and press the menu item. Cells hidden by filters or row/column hiding in the target are skipped, and only the visible cells are filled in source order. With a single cell selected as the target, the paste starts at that cell and extends down/right.
  3. With a multi-cell source, a temporary workbook is created internally to reshape the data around the target's hidden row/column positions before pasting. The temporary workbook is closed without saving automatically.
  4. During this process the source sheet's AutoFilter is temporarily removed and then restored with its criteria intact. A single-cell source skips these intermediate steps and is filled straight into all visible target cells.

When it refuses to run

Situation Notice
No copy source remembered "Run [Copy Visible Cells] first"
Source workbook/sheet was closed or renamed "The copy-source workbook/sheet is gone. Copy again"

Notes

  • The source is remembered by workbook/sheet name and addresses. Closing the source workbook or renaming the sheet means you must copy again.
  • If the visible area copied under a filter is extremely fragmented (its area address exceeds 255 characters), re-resolving the source can fail. The "copy again" notice is shown in that case too.