Swap cell contents in Excel?

Question

Is there an easy way to swap the contents of two cells in Microsoft Excel?

By easy, I mean either a keyboard shortcut or menu item, without involving copying to temporary cells or writing VBA scripts or anything like that. In other words, I'm looking for a way to just select two cells and click some menu item or press some key combination that will swap their contents. Surely, there has got to be a way to do this?

Answer 1

By easy, I mean either a keyboard shortcut or menu item, without involving copying to temporary cells or writing VBA scripts or anything like that. I'm looking for a way to just select two cells and click some menu item or press some key combination that will swap their contents.

Why impose this restriction? Creating a macro makes this trivial. As far as I know, it can't be done any other way. You can assign the macro to a button or hotkey.

Sub Swap()     
    If Selection.Count <> 2 Then     
         MsgBox "Select 2 cells (only) to swap."     
         Exit Sub     
    End If     
    Set trange = Selection     
    If trange.Areas.Count = 2 Then     
         temp = trange.Areas(2)     
         trange.Areas(2) = trange.Areas(1)     
         trange.Areas(1) = temp     
    Else     
         temp = trange(1)     
         trange(1) = trange(2)     
         trange(2) = temp     
    End If     
End Sub     

Answer 2

No. There is no way to swap the contents of two cells in Excel, without writing your own macro to do it.