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A moving border surrounds a selected cell or range of cells that has been copied to the Clipboard. This border usually appears as a dashed or dotted line and indicates that the data is ready to be pasted elsewhere.
The selected range to be copied is typically surrounded by a dotted line border (also known as a "marching ants" border) in applications like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. This border helps visually indicate the area that will be copied when performing the copy action.
To paste a range of cells to a specific cell, select the target cell first and then paste the copied range. This will ensure that the copied cells are pasted starting from the selected target cell.
The first cell in the new location. This acts as the anchor point for the corresponding cells, so the first cell in the copied range goes into the cell that has been selected.
The Enter key, also known as the Return key.
Place holders
The range of selected and copied cells will paste into the sheet with the range's top left cell at the selected insertion point. For Excel set up for right-to-left languages e.g., Hebrew and Arabic, the range will paste into the sheet with the range's top right cell at the insertion point.
If you have a range of cells selected which includes more than column, it copies what is in the first column to the right. So whatever is in the first cell on each row in the area selected, is copied across that row within the area selected.
It is the selected area when a copy is done, and is also referred to as the source area. Whatever is in it is what will be copied and pasted to another area, often called the paste area or destination area.
Yes. This effect is sometimes referred to as marching ants.
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