4. Getting Data onto a Sheet

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You never know where your data is going to come from—manually typed in, imported or copied from another file, or from the Web. Because of this, Excel offers a multitude of ways to enter data. In this chapter, you’ll learn those ways and also the following:

Entering different types of data

Quickly copying data using the fill handle

Working with lists

→ Using Text to Columns

→ Controlling user entry with Data Validation

Spell checking a sheet

Finding data on a sheet

Fixing numbers stored as text

Data entry ...

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