Getting Moving

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Written by Alistair Wylie – 01.05.09

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The first thing that you will need to learn is how to move around a Spreadsheet. One way of doing this is to use the arrow keys on your keyboard to highlight a particular cell. The highlighted cell has a thicker black border than the others. Using the arrow keys you can move the selected cell up, down, left or right one cell at a time. You can also use the page up or page down keys to move a whole page at a time. All of this is covered in our Beginners Excel Course.

It’s easy to lose track of where you are in a spreadsheet – at any time you can hold the “Ctrl” key the “Home” keys together to return the selected cell to the top left of the sheet (cell A1). If you are new at this then it is worthwhile practicing this for a few minutes before continuing so as to get a better feel for moving around.

For a quick and easy way to locate a cell press the F5 key. This will open the “go to” box, where in you can enter the address of the cell that you want to go to, and be taken there immediately. Alternatively, you may find it easier to use the left part of the Formula bar at the top of your spreadsheet. Just type the address of the cell (e.g A1 or C4 etc…) and press enter

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