How To Select Entire Row, Column, Or All Cells With Specific Text In Excel

When you use excel to enter data, you may need to select one excel row or column entirely, or you may also need to select all cells with specific text. This article will tell you how to do that.

1. How To Select One Excel Row, Column Entirely.

1.1 Select One Row In Excel Entirely.

  1. Click to select any cell in the row.
  2. And press both Shift + WhiteSpace keys at the same time.
  3. Then you will find the entire excel row has been selected.
  4. If the selected cell is in a table.
  5. Then it will only select all the cells in the table row’s range.

1.2 Select One Column In Excel Entirely.

  1. Click to select any cell in the column.
  2. Press both Ctrl + WhiteSpace keys at the same time.
  3. Then it will select the entire column that contains all the cells in the column.
  4. If the selected cell is in a table.
  5. Then it will only select all the cells in the table column’s range.

2. How To Select Range Of Cells In Excel Table & WorkSheet.

  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Home to select the cells on the upper part of the excel table or worksheet.
  2. Press Ctrl + Shift + End to select the cells on the lower part of the excel table or worksheet.
  3. Then you can hold press the Shift key and the arrow keys ( left, right, up, and down ) keys to adjust the cell’s selection range.

3. How To Select Multiple Specified Cells In Excel.

  1. If you want to select multiple excel cells, you can press the Ctrl key and hold it, then click all the cells which you want to select one by one to select them.

4. How To Select All The Cells In One Excel Worksheet.

  1. Press the keys Ctrl + A twice to select all the cells in one excel worksheet.

5. How To Select All The Blank Cells In Specified Cells.

  1. Suppose there is a table in your excel worksheet, and you want to select out all the blank cells in the table.
  2. First, you should select all the cells in that excel table, you can do this by selecting one cell in that table, then pressing Ctrl + A to select all the table cells.
  3. Press the key F5 to open the Go To dialog box.
  4. Click the Special… button to open the Go To Special dialog box.
  5. Click the Blanks radio button to select it, then click the OK button to close the dialog.
  6. Now you will find all the blank cells in the table are selected.

6. How To Select All Cells With Specific Text In Excel.

  1. Click the excel Home tab, then click the Find & Select —> Find… menu item in the Editing group.
  2. Input the search text in the Find what text box.
  3. Then click the Find All button to list all the cells that contain the search text below the Find All button.
  4. Click the Find Next button to find the next cell that contains the specified text.

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