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How to quickly select large range of cells in a worksheet?

Author Xiaoyang Last modified

If you want to select a large range of cells, it will take minutes to scroll the horizontal and vertical scroll bar, are there any quick methods for you to select a large range in a worksheet? This article, I will talk about some quick tricks to solve this task in Excel.

Quickly select large range of cells with Name Box

Quickly select large range of cells with Shortcut keys

Quickly select large range of cells with Name Box

In fact, the Name Box can help you to select a large range if you know the exact range reference, please do as this:

1. Type the cell reference, such as A1:BB1000 into the Name Box, see screenshot:

a screenshot of entering the cell reference of the large range of cell in the Name Box

2. Then press Enter key, and your specified cell range is selected at once.

Quickly select large range of cells with Shortcut keys

Here is another quick way for you to select the large range in a worksheet without dragging the scroll bar, please do as this:

1. Select the first cell (top left cell) of the large range, and enter the last cell reference of the range into the Name Box, see screenshot:

a screenshot of entering the last cell reference in the Named box

2. And then press Shift + Enter keys together, and the specific large cell range has been selected immediately.

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