Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in your data and will finish tedious tasks for you. Produced by Sara Silverstein Follow BI ...

Do you have any other tips to share? A. Flash Fill is one of my favorite features in Excel because it can do a lot of routine tasks. If Excel can sense a pattern in what you are doing, it will try to ...

Then hold down the Ctrl key and press E. Flash Fill will populate your column based on the pattern it detects. In Excel for Mac, the keyboard shortcut is the only way to use Flash Fill. The keyboard ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with ...

To trigger Flash Fill, enter the value you want for the first record. In this case, enter Harkins in C2. Next, select C3 and press Ctrl + E to see if Excel has figured out the pattern. In this ...

We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in your data and will finish tedious tasks ...