Summary

This chapter showed you the techniques you need to know to enter the contents for any worksheet in Excel. You learned how Excel treats different types of information—text, numbers, and formulas. You saw how to enter each type of information into a cell, as well as how to edit or replace a cell entry. The chapter shared handy data-entry shortcuts such as AutoFill, and finished by explaining what number formats are and how to apply them. Continue in the book to learn how to work with groups of cells called ranges.