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

2. How to select or highlight cells in a worksheet

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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)

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.