Excel® 2013 Formulas and Functions

1. Getting the Most Out of Ranges

In This Chapter

Advanced Range-Selection Techniques

Data Entry in a Range

Filling a Range

Creating a Series

Advanced Range Copying

Clearing a Range

Applying Conditional Formatting to a Range

Other than performing data-entry chores, you probably spend most of your Excel life working with ranges in some way. Whether you’re copying, moving, formatting, naming, or filling them, ranges are a big part of Excel’s day-to-day operations. And why not? After all, working with a range of cells is a lot easier than working with each cell individually. For example, suppose that you want to know the average of a column of numbers running from B1 to B30. You could enter all 30 cells as arguments in the AVERAGE function, but ...