If your copying and pasting involves just the odd cell/range here and
there, you could create a simple macro to combine the paste special
steps, and then assign this macro to a keystroke. Something like this:
I have an excel sheet which has a coloured background and cell borders. I
want to copy things into this without loosing this background colour and
border.
I know I could just "paste special" and then "values" but I was wondering if
there was another, less time consuming way!