FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Notice that when your cursor is in the cell, in the lower right corner of the cell a small black square appears; that’s called a fill handle. If you carefully move the mouse cursor over the fill handle, it changes to a small black plus sign (called crosshairs).

Detailed explanation-2: -Excel’s fill handle is a small rectangular control that appears whenever a cell or range of cells are selected. When the cursor is moved over the fill handle, it turns into a cross symbol, which can be dragged to fill in more cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -That plus sign appears when the mouse is over an image. If you have a scanned document and use Acrobat XI you can try to perform OCR by going to menu View-> Tools-> Text Recognition and click on Recognize Text “In This File".

Detailed explanation-4: -By default, the fill handle and drag-and-drop editing 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 range of cells by positioning the mouse pointer on a cell or cell range border so that it changes to a move pointer.