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5.7 Selecting Cells and Ranges

     

Some edit actions affect only one cell at a time, such as changing the value of a cell. Others actions affect blocks of cells, known as cell ranges. The copy, move, clear and format operations, for example, can affect one cell or a group of cells.

Before you do an operation that manipulates cell contents, you must select which cell(s) you wish to affect. For example:

NExS offers five options for selecting cells:

In each case, NExS highlights the selection. If no range or cell is selected, most NExS operations apply to the current cell.




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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999