excel paste special should allow text

I was using dates and wanted to copy only the day of the week in order to
analyse frequency of days of the week. Paste special only allows the copying
of values, not of text.

Eg. Tuesday gets copied as 38412 and 38440 (depending on the rest of the
date) and all I want is "Tuesday"

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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:45:03 -0700, Roger Wagner <Roger
Wagner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I was using dates and wanted to copy only the day of the week in order to
>analyse frequency of days of the week. Paste special only allows the copying
>of values, not of text.
>
>Eg. Tuesday gets copied as 38412 and 38440 (depending on the rest of the
>date) and all I want is "Tuesday"
>
>----------------
>This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
>suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
>Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
>link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
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>
>http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...heet.functions

In a new column, and assuming that column A has your dates:

=TEXT(A1,"dddd")

This will yield the day of the week for the date, as a text field.

Copy the range, put your cursor where you want to paste, then press
Alt, E, S, V.

This will paste-special the values of the days.

MP-
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"Learning is a behavior that results from consequences."
B.F. Skinner

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:45:03 -0700, Roger Wagner <Roger
Wagner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I was using dates and wanted to copy only the day of the week in order to
>analyse frequency of days of the week. Paste special only allows the copying
>of values, not of text.
>
>Eg. Tuesday gets copied as 38412 and 38440 (depending on the rest of the
>date) and all I want is "Tuesday"
>
>----------------
>This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
>suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
>Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
>link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
>click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...heet.functions

In a new column, and assuming that column A has your dates:

=TEXT(A1,"dddd")

This will yield the day of the week for the date, as a text field.

Copy the range, put your cursor where you want to paste, then press
Alt, E, S, V.

This will paste-special the values of the days.

MP-
--
"Learning is a behavior that results from consequences."
B.F. Skinner