Help: My Microsoft Excel "Paste Special// skip blanks" feature isn't working!

I am trying to paste the values from an entire column into another column that already contains information I want to keep, where information in the latter column corresponds to blank cells in the former. Normally, I would use the gem of a SKIP BLANKS feature, but, for some reason, it isn’t working at all… It is just pasting all of the values, including the blanks, over my second column… TIPS, anyone?