Let’s say you have student information in a worksheet where students’ last names, first names, and ID numbers are in Column A. If you want their first name and last name to appear in Column B, you ...

Microsoft Excel's Auto Fill features help you quickly enter the same value in more than one cell or fill a series of cells with related or sequential values. You can type "Acme Corporation" in one ...

Learn the many ways to insert entire and partial rows and columns in Excel, including a fill handle method. Out of necessity, you probably learned early on how to insert rows and columns. Both are ...

How to automatically fill increment cells in Excel using the Autofill function How to automatically fill increment cells in Excel using the formula Interestingly, we don’t even need a formula for this ...

Microsoft Excel’s fill handle tool won’t create an alphabetic list by default, but there are a few tricks you can use to make it work. If you’ve tried to create an alphabetic list using Excel’s fill ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in your ...

Q. I enjoy learning about ways to increase my efficiency and save time in Microsoft Excel. Do you have any other tips to share? A. Flash Fill is one of my favorite features in Excel because it can do ...

Stop doing more than you have to in Excel—built-in tools can automate repetitive tasks instantly.