How To Insert Text To Many Excel Cells

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Many document creators (especially business owners) wind up in situations where quite a bit of easy, tedious work needs to be performed. This includes a wide variety of potential problems but one of the most common is the need to change/add text into many Excel cells at one time. This is particularly common when large spreadsheets of information need to be properly altered. It is also typical for students who wish to adjust lab reports or other Excel spreadsheets. This addition of text generally requires a simple ‘copy' and ‘paste' action where text is just added to a cell in the spreadsheet. While this is an easy task, the repetition and monotony can certainly wear on an individual.
At present, the ‘best' free option accessible is the time-tested way of opening each spreadsheet, manually changing each cell in the spreadsheet, saving the file, and then closing each document. This type of work is very simple to do but demands large blocks of time. In Excel, it can be as simple as entering the desired ...
... text and dragging a box around the desired cells to copy information into them. For a business attempting to update its files, this may need to be carried out to thousands of cells in different spreadsheets. One option is to dedicate resources toward the task until it is complete. This may then have an individual involved for hours, days, or even weeks depending upon the volume of spreadsheets needing to be edited. Usually everyone's time is better spent on other, more productive tasks.
A huge productivity boost is available through a simple stop at www.hothotsoftware.com. Just searching for ‘How to Add Text to Excel Cells' produces a program precisely written to meet your Excel file needs. The program is actually written to operate inside the Excel spreadsheet program itself. This means that after opening Microsoft Excel, you will see an extra tab in the ribbon bar across the top of the window. This new tab will say ‘Add Custom Text to Cells'. This tab consists of a classic user interface that allows even a basic computer user to learn and master the software in a short quantity of time. From this point, any number of cells within the spreadsheet may be chosen. Then, click the ‘Add Custom Text to Cells' tab. There are then six selections for text alterations in the documents. These alterations are split into two different sections. The top section has three distinct options: one to add text at the beginning of each cell(s), add text to the end of each cell, and finally adding text at ‘X' numerical position in each cell. The lower customization section allows for a custom phrase to be inserted and then text to be appended before or after this custom phrase. There is also the ability for the custom phrase to be located and then changed.