Range of contiguous cells
A range of cells can be selected using the keyboard or the mouse.
To select a range of cells by dragging the mouse:
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Click in a cell.
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Press and hold down the left mouse button.
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Move the mouse around the screen.
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Once the desired block of cells is highlighted, release the left mouse button.
To select a range of cells without dragging the mouse:
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Click in the cell which is to be one corner of the range of cells.
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Move the mouse to the opposite corner of the
range of cells.
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Hold down the Shift key and
click.
To select a range of cells without using the
mouse:
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Select the cell that will be one of the
corners in the range of cells.
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While holding down the Shift
key, use the cursor arrows to select the
rest of the range.
The result of any of these methods will look like the right side of Figure 4.
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You can also directly select a range of cells using the Name box. Click into the Name box as described in “Using a cell reference†on page 10. To select a range of cells, enter the cell reference for the upper left hand cell, followed by a colon (:), and then the lower right hand cell reference. For example, to select the range that would go from A3 to C6, you would enter A3:C6.
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