1. Copying Vertically And Pasting Horizontally In Excel Spreadsheet
  2. Copying Vertically And Pasting Horizontally In Excel Worksheet
  3. Copying Vertically And Pasting Horizontally In Excel Cell

How to copy horizontal paste vertical or vice versa in Excel?

For example you need to copy a horizontal row and paste as a vertical column in Excel, how do you handle it? What if copying one row horizontally and pasting as multiple columns vertically or vice versa? And what if copying multiple rows horizontally and pasting as one column vertically or vice versa? Below methods will help you:

  • Copy a row horizontally and paste as one or multiple columns vertically or vice versa
  • Copy multiple rows horizontally and paste as one column vertically or vice versa

Copy a row horizontally and paste as a column vertically or vice versa

We can apply Excel’s (Paste) Transpose feature to copy a row horizontally and then paste as a column vertically or vice versa in Excel.

Copying Vertically And Pasting Horizontally In Excel

Re: Excel VBA to copy and paste from horizontal to vertical format. Surround your VBA code with CODE tags e.g.; CODE your VBA code here /CODE The # button in the forum editor will apply CODE tags around your selected text. Register To Reply., 07:25 PM #7. Hello i am newbie to excel and i need some help in this issue i have copied A1 cell from sheet 1 into A1 cell from sheet 2 what i need to do is to drag A1 of sheet 2 horizontally (B1, C1, D1) and get the vertical values (rows) of sheet 1: A2, A3, A4, etc. Open the Excel sheet Copy the selected data i.e. A3:A10 by using Ctrl + C Right clickon the mouse in cell C4 where you want to paste the data. Select the option highlighted in Blue to Transpose the data. In this video, i had explained How to Copy Vertical and Paste Horizontal in Microsoft Excel? Transpose function.

1. Select the row you will copy horizontally, right click and select the Copy from the right-clicking menu. See screenshot:

2. Select the first cell of destination column, right click and select the Transpose (T) in the Paste Options section of the right-clicking menu. See below screenshot:

And now the row is copied horizontally and pasted as one column vertically. This (Paste) Transpose feature also supports to copy a column vertically and paste as one row horizontally, too.

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Copy a row horizontally and paste as one or multiple columns vertically or vice versa

Sometimes, you may want to copy a row horizontally and paste as several columns vertically in Excel. In this condition, you can try Kutools for Excel’s Transform Range utility.

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1. Select the row you will copy horizontally, and click Kutools > Range > Transform Range. See below screenshot:

2. In the opening Transform Range dialog box, please (see above screenshot):
(1) Check the Single row to range option in the Transform type section;
(2) Check the Fixed value option in the Columns per record section, and type the number of columns you will paste as into the right box.
(3) Click the Ok button.

3. And now another Transform Range dialog box comes out. Please specify the first cell of destination range, and click the OK button.

Now the row is copied horizontally and pasted as several columns vertically. See below screenshot:

Note: For copying a column vertically and pasting as one or multiple rows horizontally, please do as below screenshot shown:

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Copy multiple rows horizontally and paste as one column vertically or vice versa

Kutools for Excel’s Transform Range utility also supports to copy multiple rows horizontally and then paste as one column vertically, or copy multiple columns vertically and then paste as one row horizontally.

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Copying Vertically And Pasting Horizontally In Excel Spreadsheet

Here I will take copying multiple rows and pasting as one column for example.

1. Select the rows you will copy horizontally, and click Kutools > Range > Transform Range.

2. In the opening Transform Range dialog box, check the Range to single column option, and click the Ok button.

And now the specified rows are copied horizontally and pasted as one column vertically. See above screenshot:

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Note: For copying multiple columns vertically and pasting as one row horizontally, please use the Range to single row option in the Transform Range dialog box.

Demo: copy horizontal paste vertical or vice versa in Excel


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In this article we will learn how to copy vertical and paste horizontal in Microsoft Excel.

Copying Vertically And Pasting Horizontally In Excel Worksheet

While working with data in excel, the first step is to get the data from the desired source & organize it. Sometimes there is aneed to convert the Vertical data to Horizontal for better analysis or presentation.

The tool we are going to use is the Transposeoption in the Paste Special command.

Try these Steps:

  • Open the Excel sheet
  • Copy the selected data i.e. A3:A10 by using Ctrl + C
  • Right clickon the mouse in cell C4 where you want to paste the data.
  • Select the option highlighted in Blue to Transpose the data. You can either select the first highlighted box directly below the paste options header or the 2nd one.
  • You can also apply the Keyboard shortcut. - Select the cell where you want to paste the data as shown in below picture by using Paste Special command and use the keyboard shortcut for paste special which is Alt + E, S, E
  • This is how our output looks after pasting it as Horizontal

Another way to copy data which is vertical & paste ithorizontallyis by using the Transpose Function

  • In cell C4, type {=TRANSPOSE(A3:A10)} using Ctrl + Shift + Enteron the keyboard.
  • This is how our output looks after pasting it horizontally.

Copying Vertically And Pasting Horizontally In Excel Cell

Below you can find more example to learn about Transpose:-

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