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Techniques for copying and pasting

Techniques for copying and pasting - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Techniques for copying and pasting

I want to show you some copying and pasting techniques. First thing we do before even copying and pasting is I want to show you some moving techniques. Let's just select this area here. Now most of the time when you're using Excel, your mouse pointer is this big old Plus sign, but put the mouse pointer anywhere on the edge of the selected area and you see your mouse pointer becomes a four-headed arrow. When you get that four-headed arrow, you could just drag anywhere on the worksheet you want and that whole area goes together. Now I want to undo, so I could hit this Undo button over here. You could also press Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Z will undo in every application under the sun whether it's Microsoft or not. To remember it I always think that Z stands for zap the last thing that I did. Well, I want to copy this area. So when I get that four-headed arrow mouse pointer, let's hold down the Ctrl key on the keyboard. When you hold down the Ctrl key, see that four-headed arrow turn to a regular…

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