is another way to select the desired cells. We can select for copying. Not only the range A1:G26, which is a part of the columns A:G, that is, but all the cells of the columns A:G at once. To do this, hover the cursor over the name of column «A», above cell A1, click on the left mouse button and, without releasing it, drag the mouse cursor to the right until column G is highlighted. Release the pressed left mouse button.
all the cells of the columns A:G at once
After the range for copying is selected, click on the «Copy» button located on the «Home» tab.
click on the «Copy» button located on the «Home» tab
Instead of using the «Copy» button, we can hover the mouse cursor over the selected range, right-click and select «Copy».
right-click and select «Copy»
For copying, the «Ctrl» and «C» keys located on the keyboard are also often used. First, press the «Ctrl» and, without releasing it, press the «C» key with the second finger.
Regardless of the chosen copying method, the result will be the same: a copy of the selected fragment gets to the Clipboard and is ready for insertion in any other place, both in this file and in any other file. Around the copied fragment, a temporary dynamic dotted line appears, indicating copies of which cells are currently in the Clipboard.
Paste operation
We stand with the tabular cursor on the cell in which we are going to insert the data on our «Information from secretary» sheet.
Since we are going to insert not one cell, but a whole array of data, we must stand on the upper left cell of this array (in this case it is cell «A1»), below which and to the right of which the entire array will be inserted.
we must stand on the upper left cell «A1», below which and to the right of which the entire array will be inserted
Click on the «Paste» button located on the «Home» tab.
Click on the «Paste» button
Instead of the «Paste» button, you can use the keyboard shortcut «Ctrl» and «V». You can also hover the mouse cursor, right-click and select «Paste».
In the data copied to the «Information from secretary» sheet, not all words are fully readable, since the column width is less than the width of some words.
not all words are fully readable
If we want to align column A by width, that is, to make the width of column «A» such that the longest word in column «A» is visible, then hover the mouse cursor over the right border of column «A» and double-click with the left mouse button.
If we want to align several columns in a similar way, then select these columns from «A» to «G», hover the mouse cursor over the border of any two of them, for example between «A» and «B», and double-click the left mouse button with a small interval. All columns have «moved apart».
To quickly select all columns and all rows of the entire sheet at once, use a left mouse click on the upper left corner area located to the left of column «A» and above row «1». This method of selecting the entire sheet is used not only when adjusting columns or rows in width, but also when quickly copying the contents of the entire sheet at once.
click on the upper left corner area
Thus, we copied, pasted, and aligned the width of the inserted array of initial data.
Now we will copy the data from the second file with the initial data «Information from the HR Department» to a sheet, which we will call «Information from HR». Since we don’t have a second sheet in the file yet, we need to create it. We will do this by hovering the mouse cursor over the name of the sheet, similar to how we did when renaming the sheet, and click the right mouse button. Only now we will choose not «Rename», but «Insert», and then select «Worksheet». Click «Ok».
select «Worksheet». Click «Ok».
Rename this new «Sheet1» to «Information from HR», copy the information from the HR department to it, similar to how we did it with the information from the secretary.
copy the information from the HR department
Since this time, we copied and pasted all the rows and all the columns of the sheet at once, we did not have to additionally align the columns in width.
Let’s create another, third sheet, which we will call «Result». On which we will enter information from both the «Information from HR» sheet and the «Information from secretary» sheet.
Please note: the active sheet is highlighted with a white fill. To move to another sheet, hover the mouse cursor over it and click the left button.
Now, let’s move to another sheet. And let’s go to the «Result» sheet again. The layout of the sheet can also be changed. To do this, hover the mouse cursor over the name of the sheet, right-click, select «Move» or «Copy» and, for example, move to the end.
select «Move» or «Copy» and, for example, move to the end
Editing tables
We proceed to fill out the «Result» sheet.
First, copy the information from the sheet from the Secretary to the «Result» sheet. Select and copy columns A:E with the names Department, Position, Surname, First Name, Patronymic.
Copied.
As it often happens in practice, we are faced with a small problem: the names in the file that was provided to us from one source (from the Secretary) are arranged in a different order. The rows are sorted differently than the rows with surnames in the file that we received from another source (HR department). If the rows with surnames on both source sheets (both from the Secretary and from the HR Department) would have the same order, then copying would be simple. We would select the columns we need (with dates of birth and employment), copy them and paste them. But in our case, this cannot be done, because it will lead to an error – in the file from the HR Department and on the sheet «Information from HR» in the second row is the surname «Borshchev», while in the file from the Secretary and on the sheet «Result» the second row is occupied by «Ivanov».
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