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Microsoft Excel

FILLING A SERIES
A series refers to a sequence of ordered entries reducing the amount of time taken for data entry,
in adjacent cells, such as the days of the week or and ensuring that the spelling is correct. Excel
months of the year. The fill technique can be provides days and months as special built-in series
used to create these in a worksheet for you, that you can access.

2
Try This Yourself:
Before starting this exercise
Open
File

you MUST open the file E707


Filling_1.xlsx...

 Click on cell A4

 Move the mouse pointer to the


small square (the fill handle)
at the bottom right corner of
the cell until the mouse pointer 3
appears as a thin, black cross

 Drag the mouse pointer to


column F
Excel will fill the range with the
first six months of the year…

 Click on cell A5 and repeat


steps 2 and 3 to create the
series of months with their full
names
You can also fill more than one 6
row at a time…

 Select the range A6:A12

 Repeat steps 2 and 3 to fill


across to column F

 Examine each of the series


created by the filling process

For Your Reference… Handy to Know…


To fill a series:  As you drag the fill handle across, a tool tip
1. Click on the first cell in the series appears below the fill pointer displaying the
current value in the series. This is really
2. Drag from the fill handle across as many
handy when you want to end on a particular
columns as required
month, day or value.

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