
Using TextExpander, you can expand words, sentences, code snippets, formatted text, pictures, etc. It has all the bells and whistles you will ever need. TextExpander is one of the most popular, mature, and robust applications that Mac users have been enjoying for a long time. Rather, you can install a free Google Chrome extension called Auto Text Expander. As such, if you are an avid Google Chrome user and does all the writing or just want the text expansion feature within the browser then you don’t have to use a dedicated application that you need to install on your Windows system. In fact, Google Chrome even has dedicated apps that behave just like your regular program but will stay within the browser environment. Google Chrome is one of the most used browsers and has a ton of extensions for almost anything you can imagine. You can see the complete feature list here. For paid users, PhraseExpress offers three different plans with $49.95, $139.95, and $219 for Standard, Professional, and Enterprise licenses.įeatures you get in the paid version: With the paid version you will get access to some advanced features like sharing, desktop menus, MS Word formatted phrases, Clip Collections, SQL Server support, etc. Paste Buddy is an Excel add-in that allows you to create custom keyboard shortcut for any of the paste special commands.Pricing: There is a free version.


I prefer to use Paste Buddy for my most common paste commands (values, formatting, formulas). The shortcut to paste formulas is Ctrl+V, Ctrl, F.

So the full keyboard shortcut to paste values is Ctrl+V, Ctrl, V. The caveat to this is that you have to press and release the Ctrl key the second time, then press V. That means you can press Ctrl+V twice to paste values (once to paste, then the second time will paste values). So Ctrl then V is the shortcut to Paste Values after you have pasted the cells. When the menu appears with all the paste options, you can press the letter in parenthesis next to the option name to select the command. Starting in Excel 2010 this menu can be accessed with the Ctrl key. The options can be selected by pressing the underlined letter in the option name.

If you are using Excel 2007 then you can access the Paste Options menu using the Alt+Menu Key shortcut.
