Flash Fill is a great tool that interprets a pattern and applies it to data to quickly create new data, whether in one column or across several columns.

An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

Microsoft Excel offers several tools you can use when you need to fill a column with the same text or numbers. Instead of completing each cell manually, you can quickly fill in the entire column ...

How to use Excel’s Flash Fill feature, including a keyboard shortcut for both Windows and Excel for Mac.

Automatic data fill-in works on a variety of data ranges, including simple number increments and various date and time patterns. For example, you can create a column of the months of the year in a ...

If Excel can sense a pattern in what you are doing, it will try to complete the task for you. Flash Fill can be used with Excel 2013 and later versions on Windows and Excel 2016 and later versions on ...

Learn how to how to increment numbers when value changes in another column. You can automatically fill increment cells in Excel such that the increment value across each cell remains constant.