<p class="Paragraph">Assume you have hidden a few rows or columns in a cell range. Now you want to copy only the visible cells.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> behaves differently depending on how you hid the invisible cells and what you intend to do with them.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Cells were <span class="T1">filtered out</span> by way of AutoFilters, default filters or special filters.</p>
<p class="TextInTable"><span class="T1">Copy</span> the visible cells, for example, with copy and paste via the clipboard, with the middle mouse button or drag and drop while pressing the Ctrl key.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Cells were <span class="T1">filtered out</span> by way of AutoFilters, default filters or special filters.</p>
<p class="TextInTable"><span class="T1">Move</span> the visible cells, for example, by way of cut and paste via the clipboard or drag and drop without pressing an additional key.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Cells were <span class="T1">hidden manually</span> by way of the <span class="T1">Hide</span> command in the context menu of the row or column headers, or through an <help:link Id="66808" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">outline</help:link>.</p>
<p class="TextInTable"><span class="T1">Copy</span> or <span class="T1">move</span> the visible cells.</p>