Basic Selecting Excel Office 2016 © EIT, Author Gay Robertson, 2019

How to select or highlight cells in a worksheet

Single cell Click in E7 click in A1 The name box will tell you which cell you are in

Small range of cells click in A1 and drag the fat white cross down to A2 – 2 cells will be selected the selection is 2 rows deep by 1 column wide Click in A1 and hold the mouse button down, drag down to A2

Click in A3 and hold the mouse button down, drag across to D3 Let’s look at how you can select or highlight different cells on a worksheet or different rows the selection is one row deep and 4 columns wide

Single column or group of columns Let’s look at how you can select a single column or a group of columns on a worksheet Click on the Column letter C You will see the ‘whole’ column is selected Click on the Column letter C and drag the mouse button across to Column letter E

Single row or group of rows Let’s look at how you can select a single row or a group of rows on a worksheet Click on Row No 2 You will see the ‘whole’ row is selected Click on Row No 2, and drag the mouse button down to Row No 8

Large range of cells Click on first cell in the range Hold down the shift key Click on last cell in the range (you can scroll to the last cell using the scroll bars)

Non-adjacent rows or columns Click on first row number or column letter Hold down the CTRL key Click on next row number or column letter You can select other columns/rows as long as you hold down the CTRL key

Non-adjacent cells Click on first cell or select first group of cells Hold down the CTRL key Click on next cell or group of cells You can select other cells as long as you hold down the CTRL key

You could practise selecting /highlighting Select a single cell B2 Select a range of cells A1:G20 Select all cells on the worksheet Select Row 5 Select Rows 11:15 Select Column C Select Columns B:K

When I close this presentation and File Explorer, Excel may be open When I close this presentation and File Explorer, Excel may be open!! This is the icon I used to open the program. This was pinned to the taskbar.