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AubreyGem
Feb 17, 2023Copper Contributor
Stop Excel from Rounding Long Numbers on Paste
This has been asked many times, in many places, and I still don't have a functional solution. I'm looking for some sort of permanent setting that will prevent Excel from rounding pasted long numbers....
Dexsys
Feb 05, 2026Occasional Reader
Ok so the Best way to do it is Simple:
First Select the Entire Column, and set the Format to TEXT
then when you copy paste the above Digits, you have to Paste them as Text as well.
If you use the mouse clicks for pasting, you have to:
- Right Click on the Cell
- Click on Paste Special
- Click on Text
If you use Keyboard (which i recommend, much faster)
- Select the Cell
- CTRL + ALT + V
- Use arrow key to move selection to Text Option
- Hit Enter
Now lets say you dont feel like doing the Pasting as Text everytime.
Then what you can do instead is paste all the numbers in the Notepad program
Then copy the numbers all together when you are done.
then paste them in one shot as TEXT as shown in the above steps