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Selecting and Editing Cells

Apart from entering data into a worksheet, Excel also provides the facility to perform various other
operations with data such as modifying, inserting, moving/copying and deleting. To perform all these

operations, we first need to select the cell that contains data. Excel allows us to select a single cell or a
group of cells.

To select a Single Cell: Click on the cell to select it.
To select a Group of Cells or Range: Click on the first cell

from where you want to start the selection and drag the
mouse diagonally to the cell to which you want to make
selection.

We can also select a range of cells by using the Shift key. Click on the first cell and then press and
hold the Shift key and click on the last cell up to which we want to make a selection.

Entire Row/Column: Click on the row heading to select the entire
row or click on the column heading to select the entire column. Hintbot
Entire Worksheet: Click on the Select All button located below Shortcut to select entire

the Name box to select the entire worksheet. worksheet: Ctrl + A

Modifying Cell Content
To modify the cell content in a worksheet, follow these steps:

1 Enter the data
into worksheet.

Double-click on the cell
2 whose content you want
to change.

After making all the

3 changes, press the Enter
key from the keyboard.

Formatting Cells and Text

Formatting cells and text in Excel helps make your data easier to read and more visually appealing. You
can change the font style, size, and colour of the text. Additionally, you can align the text to the left,
centre, or right in the cell.

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