FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

USING MICROSOFT EXCEL

WORKBOOK THEMES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does the cursor look like when using the fill handle?
A
Thick plus sign
B
Thin plus sign
C
Four arrows
D
Arrow
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -To use the fill handle, move your mouse pointer to the right bottom corner of the cell; it will change into a tiny + (cross) sign. Drag the cross sign, and if Excel recognizes the pattern, it will autofill the cells with the updated data.

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