IUsing the Cell Cursor

The cell cursor shows the cell that is selected on a spreadsheet. The highlighted cell is the one that is currently selected by the cell cursor.

Cell cursor

Edit box

When a single cell is selected by the cell cursor, the contents of that cell are displayed in the edit box. The cell contents can be edited in the edit box.

When a multiple cells are selected by the cell cursor, the selection range is displayed in the edit box. In this case, you can copy, delete, or perform other cell operations on the entire range of selected cells.

STo select cells
To select this:Do this:

 

 

A single cell

Use the cursor keys to move the cell cursor to the cell

 

you want, or use the JUMP comment to jump directly

 

to the cell.

 

 

A range of cells

See “To select a range of cells” (page 9-5).

 

 

An entire row of cells

Move the cell cursor to column A of the row whose

 

cells you want to select and then press B. Pressing

 

B while the cell cursor is located at cell A2, for

 

example, will select the entire second row (from A2 to

 

Z2). This will cause A2:Z2 (which indicates the selected

 

range) to appear in the edit box.

 

 

An entire column of cells.

Move the cell cursor to row 1 of the column whose cells

 

you want to select and then press D. Pressing D

 

while the cell cursor is located at cell C1, for example,

 

will select the entire column C (from C1 to C999).

 

This will cause C1:C999 (which indicates the selected

 

range) to appear in the edit box.

 

 

All of the cells in the spreadsheet

Press B while the entire column A is selected or

 

press D while the entire row 1 is selected. This will

 

select all of the cells in the spreadsheet and display the

 

spreadsheet file name in the edit box.

 

 

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