Pasting multiple cells in Numbers.

I have been searching all day to figure out how to copy cells from several rows and paste them but have the cells now adjacent to one another. This is possible in Excel (it does it automatically). For example, I have numbers in A1, A11, A21 and I would like to copy those 3 numbers (as they are the result of formulas) and then paste them but instead of having 10 empty rows between the numbers (which is what Numbers does) I would like the 3 values to be adjacent in the same column (eg, in B1,B2,B3). I can select the multiple cells I want to copy by holding the command key, but when I paste it keeps the same "format" as the original cells (i.e. separated by 10 rows). I'm using Numbers '09 Version 2.2, on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.8.1.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Best,
K

Hi Wayne,
It is a lovely feature of MS Excel that you can copy non contiguous cells and upon paste they become contiguous.
As for "bigger picture" - I have a large table for analyzing quantitative PCR data...it consists of several rows and columns with formulas for various calculations. What I am analyzing is the expression levels of a number of genes in several samples (for example, 5 genes and I look at the expression of those 5 genes in 4 samples). The "end point" is calculating the RQ value for each gene in each sample, and I then graph the RQ values. Where the non-contiguous to contiguous paste is necessary is that the RQ values are spread out along the rows and columns (the cells in between contain the raw data and other formulas). What I was previously doing was selecting multiple cells within the row that had the RQ values, copying, and then upon paste they would be contiguous. This makes copying and pasting all of the data for constructing the graph very efficient. I have recently switiched to Numbers and am prefering it to Excel...with the exception of this one feature. Yes, copying and pasting one item at a time is possible, but time consuming and error prone compared to the method I was using in Excel. Hopefully this explanation helps in finding a solution.
Best,
K

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