Excel Essential Skills - Rows & Columns and the EVIL Merge and Center: Chris Menard Training
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.

AutoFill in Excel
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
YouTube Video
Excel Essential Skills \| Rows & Columns and the EVIL Merge and Center -
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.
