Select what you want to copy and control v or whatever to copy it.
Hylight the area you want to past to
<edit><goto><special> select visible cells and paste.
I have only done this a couple of times, so I don't know if it work for
everything.
BJ - thanks for responding. That doesn't seem to work though b/c it gives me
the error that my paste area is not the same size as what I am copying b/c it
is still counting the hidden cell region. I know this works for copying
data, but I need to paste over it. And more ideas?