Excel Essential Skills - Rows & Columns and the EVIL Merge and Center

Posted on: 05/26/2023

All users need certain essential Excel skills. Some of the most popular essential skills include autofit, autosum, inserting and deleting rows and columns. Another needed skill is absolute reference.

Topics covered in this post

Autofit
Absolute reference
Autosum
Manual cell width
Merge and Center
Inserting and Deleting Rows and Cols
Inserting and Deleting Ranges

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AutoSum in Excel

If you need to sum a range of numbers, use AutoSum to quickly add the numbers.

Select a cell next to the numbers you want to sum, click AutoSum on the Home tab, press Enter, and you’re done.

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