Moving a Row in Google Sheets with the Keyboard

Sometimes, it is necessary to move a row up or down in a Google Sheet. For example, I might be maintaining a list of tasks ordered from highest to lowest priority and realise that a task later in the sheet is actually higher priority than earlier tasks. This Google support article says you can do this by selecting the row and then choosing Move row up (or down) from the Edit menu. However, when I selected the cells in the row, these Move row items still didn’t appear in the Edit menu.

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Pasting Numbers Without Punctuation or Spaces

Everyone loves paying bills, right? One of the best parts about paying bills is surely that they usually provide all the amounts, billing codes, reference numbers, etc. with punctuation and spaces; e.g. amount $1,234, reference code 123 456-789. But banking and payment portals - sometimes even the payment portal for the organisation issuing the bill! - won’t accept spaces and punctuation! This means you can’t simply copy and paste the numbers, which is really annoying. Wouldn’t it be awesom if there were some easy, automatic way to strip out everything except numbers and the decimal point before pasting?

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