Entering text

You can enter text and style it to display in a variety of ways. Building your worksheet provides basic information about entering and editing data.

  1. Click the cell where you want to enter the text.

  2. Type the text.

    If you make a typing mistake while entering, press BACKSPACE to erase the mistake, or press ESC to cancel the entire new entry.

  3. Press ENTER.

If you enter text that is longer than the cell, and the cells to the right of the text are blank, the part of the text that overlaps those cells is displayed. If the cell to the right contains data, as much of the text as possible is displayed. To see all the text, widen the column. For information on changing column width, see Sizing columns.

Changing the appearance of text gives you more information about styling text.



See also
Selecting and deselecting data
Entering a number
Entering a date
Entering a time
Editing data