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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Enable or Hide Fill handle for Drag and Drop Editing

The Fill handle in excel is used for drag-and-drop editing. By default it is turned on in Excel so that you can drag the mouse to move and copy cells by doing the following:

- Move a cell or a range by dragging the cell or range
- Copy cell or range of cells by holding down CTRL 
- Drag the fill handle to copy data or to fill adjacent cells with a series of data

I will walk you through the example to enable it in this tutorial. Go to File and Click on 'Options'



You will see a window like the one below. Choose 'Advanced' from the left menu as


Once the below options are displayed


Click on the checkbox highlighted above, like below and click ok


You will be able to see the 'Fill' handle on the sheet now.





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