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Microsoft Office Master Tips: Quickly Copy, Move, and Fill Cells in Excel

I was watching someone work in Excel recently. She needed to copy into every cell in a 200 cell-long column, and she did it in just about the most time-consuming manner humanly possible, with long trips to the ribbon for the copy and paste buttons.

There's a much faster way: Watch this week's Business Hacks video to learn all sorts of useful mouse shortcuts for copying, moving, and filling data in your spreadsheets.

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