Show Excel a pattern to fill in Excel Video 258 and you’ll be surprised how many patterns Excel can recognize and how much time you can save entering data. As we saw in the last Excel Video, Fill is a really fast way to enter data. The more ways we can teach Excel how to fill data, the more powerful the Fill feature is.
Watch Excel Video 258 to see how to teach Excel how to fill numeric patterns and date patterns. You’ll also see how to use the Fill Series window to get Excel to fill just the pattern you’re looking for. Toward the end of the video, I’ll introduce linear trends and growth trends. Stay tuned. We’ll spend more time on linear and growth trends and cover another trick from the Fill Series window.