MS-Excel Insights

      1.         Ctrl + A: This is used to select all the cells in a worksheet.   2.         Ctrl + B: This is used to bold the value of selected cell or range of cells in a worksheet. 3.         Ctrl + C: This is used to copy the value of selected cell or range of cells in a worksheet. 4.         Ctrl + V: This is used to paste the copied cell value in cell or range of cells in a worksheet. 5.         Ctrl + F: This is used to find out the cell value in selected cell or range of cells in a worksheet. 6.         Ctrl + H:         This is used to override the existing cell value in selected cell or range of cells in a  worksheet. 7.         Ctrl + G:    ...

  In MS-Excel, we can type anything like numbers, text, date etc.  in a cell  or range but if we want to restrict a cell or range to have a specific data, we can use data validation. For Instance: Let suppose we have a data as shown in a following screenshot,   In this data we want to apply the restriction that we cannot write anything other than given 4 Standard Reasons in the selected range.  Now, select the cell or range where data validation is required to be added, go to the Data menu and click on Data Validation option (Shortcut key: Alt + A + V ) and then select the Data Validation as shown in the following screenshot. By an option, the following dialog box will get appeared in which, select  List  option from a dropdown and then in the field of   Source,  enter the reference of range wherein the standard reasons  are mentioned  and click on   OK . Now, while editing cell or range wherein the Data Validation added, we w...