Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 2

Refining Your Worksheet

IN THIS CHAPTER

Changing worksheet data

Commenting on a worksheet

Copying and moving data

Hiding and protecting worksheets so that they can’t be altered

This chapter delves into the workaday world of worksheets (say that three times fast). It explains how to edit worksheet data and move quickly here and there in a worksheet. For the purposes of collaboration, you find out how to make comments on worksheets. You also discover techniques for entering data quickly, selecting cells, and copying and moving data in cells. This chapter describes how to move, delete, and rename worksheets as well as protect them from being edited or altered.

Editing Worksheet Data

Not everyone enters data correctly the first time. To edit data you entered in a cell, do one of the following:

• Double-click the cell. Doing so places the cursor squarely in the cell, where you can start deleting or entering numbers and text.
• Click the cell and press F2. This technique also lands the cursor in the cell.
• Click the cell you want to edit. With this technique, you edit the data ...