Pasting HTML without Hyperlinks

if the issue is that the hyperlink is not wanted in the final version of the Excel file, I found by performing 1 "undo" after pasting (which creates the hyperlink with blue font) removes the linkange and the cell becomes text only. Though this does not address the speed by which the copy is executed, only replaces the hyperlink with text.

Another thing: I have tried this with Calculation turned off, with no effect on the slowdown. I have come to the conclusion that it is the hyperlinks causing the slowness.

I have seen this as well when just pasting a single internet hyperlink into a spreadsheet cell. Whenever I do this Excel hangs for several seconds. This behavior started when I switched from 2003 to 2010.

I have had similar problems, and in my case Pasting as text or copying to the notepad do not accomplish the needed effect because tables lose their formatting (i.e., instead of each number reading into a separate cell, they end up as a long string in a single cell.)

Pasting with NoHTMLFormatting = True will remove the HTML formats, but is still slow. If I do so, I will post results here.

I have not tried the method suggested by Bryan, but might try that when I get a chance.

@ E. Veit: the description says Ron has the problem when he pastes something into Excel, so clearly your solution won't work if the first step is to paste into Excel. The problem isn't that he wants to remove the hyperlinks, but that he thought the hyperlinks were slowing him down.

@ Allen: would hyperlinks make a difference if automatic calculation were the culprit? If it ONLY slows down when Ron pastes from one website, then clearly automatic calculation can't be the problem here (unless each website gets pasted to different spreadsheets, but my interpretation of the --admittedly vague-- problem statement doesn't bring me to that conclusion).

If Ron determines that simply stripping out the hyperlinks but keeing the rest of the HTML is what he wants, he can use the code on this MSKB article combined with a clever Replace function: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274326

Another solution might be to create a macro that formats the "paste as text" output to match what he needs.

Hi,
Why not paste your data not notepad and paste it back to excel? This is very convenient.

With Regards
Rudra

What I do to avoid this problem is that I paste into a fresh Excel sheet, then I save it as a *.CSV which clears all formatting, links, icons etc. just like saving a Web-Site as *.txt does.
You have to save and close the file. It first appears with all the stuff you don't like to see.

That makes everything quite clean and it works as an Excel should.
Now I copy the data from the CSV in the Excel sheet where I want the data and apply the format I like with the format painter from a previous line or copy.