Paste values in excel with MATLAB COM activeX

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Hello I need to paste as values in Excel some copied cells. How Can I do? With my code I can copy as formulas and not as values! That's my code:
clc
clear all
excel = actxserver('Excel.Application');
excel.Visible = 1;
excel.DisplayAlerts = 0;
filename = 'C:\Dropbox\Auryn\ESTRATEGIAS\ibs multiactivo2.xlsm';
filename2 = 'C:\Dropbox\Auryn\ESTRATEGIAS\ZEN REAL2.xlsm';
filename3 = 'C:\Dropbox\Auryn\Ordenes\Recommendations2.xlsx';
ibs = excel.Workbooks.Open(filename);
zen = excel.Workbooks.Open(filename2);
rec = excel.Workbooks.Open(filename3);
pause(60)
zen.Activate
invoke(zen,'Save')
zen.Close
ibs.Activate
Sheets = excel.ActiveWorkBook.Sheets;
sheet2 = get(Sheets, 'Item', 5);
invoke(sheet2, 'Activate');
Activesheet = excel.Activesheet;
Activesheet.Range('B64:W104').Copy;
rec.Activate
wksheet = rec.Worksheets.Item('Ordenes');
wksheet.Paste(wksheet.Range('B10'));

Accepted Answer

Guillaume
Guillaume on 6 Apr 2017
Use PasteSpecial with an XLPasteType of xlPasteValues (-4163) instead of Paste.
Note: I would recommend against using Active... particularly since you have the references to the original object. With Active... you always run the risk that something else gets activated in between your calls. Instead of
ibs.Activate
Sheets = excel.ActiveWorkBook.Sheets;
simply do
Sheets = ibs.Sheets; %Since ActiveWorkbook should be ibs.
So anyway:
excel = actxserver('Excel.Application');
excel.Visible = true;
excel.DisplayAlerts = false;
filename = 'C:\Dropbox\Auryn\ESTRATEGIAS\ibs multiactivo2.xlsm';
filename2 = 'C:\Dropbox\Auryn\ESTRATEGIAS\ZEN REAL2.xlsm';
filename3 = 'C:\Dropbox\Auryn\Ordenes\Recommendations2.xlsx';
ibs = excel.Workbooks.Open(filename);
zen = excel.Workbooks.Open(filename2);
rec = excel.Workbooks.Open(filename3);
pause(60)
zen.Save; %don't need invoke
zen.Close;
ibsheet = ibs.Sheets.Item(5); %no need for get(...)
ibsheet .Range('B64:W104').Copy;
recsheet = rec.Worksheets.Item('Ordenes');
recsheet.Range('B10').PasteSpecial(-4163); %-4163 for xlPasteValues
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Saravana Kumar Balasubramani
@Guillaume could you please let me know what is the equivalent code for xlPasteFormats? And where could I get the codes for other PasteSpecial options?

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