Adding, Editing, Deleting Cell

1. Adding, Editing, Deleting
contents of the Cell
by: Engr. Esmeraldo T. Guimbarda Jr.

2. RENAMING CELLS
Cells can be renamed. This helps you to
locate the specific cell that you are looking
for. To do this, click on a cell that you want
to rename (1), then go to Name Box which
is located at the left side of the Formula Bar
(2) , and type in the new name of the cell
(2). Press Enter to save changes.

4. ADDING CONTENTS TO CELLS
You can put anything you want in a cell.
Some of which are numbers, letters, and
dates. To add a content to a cell, click on a
specific cell, then type in any word or
number you want. For example, you can
type in the word “Hello” and press Enter.
Repeat the above steps to add more
contents to different cells.

6. EDITING CONTENTS OF CELLS
If you want to change the content of a specific cell, do
this by double-clicking on the cell that you want to
edit/change, then type in the new content and press
Enter. Another way of editing content is to use the
Formula Bar. Click on the cell you want to edit. Go to
the Formula Bar and highlight the current content in it
if you want to edit the whole content, then type in the
new content and press Enter.

9. DELETING CONTENTS OF CELLS
If you want to delete the content of a cell,
click on the cell that you want to delete,
then press Backspace or Delete.

10. Activity:
Open Microsoft Excel
Click on Start ► All Programs ►
Microsoft Office ► Microsoft Excel or
double-click on the Microsoft Excel
shortcut on the desktop.

11. Input Contents.
Click on the first cell, which is A1, and type in “Jewelry Store”. Then on
cells A3, B3, and C3. Type in “Item Name”, “Date Delivered” and
“Number of Stocks”, respectively.
Under Item Name, type in “Beads”, “Strings”, “Stones”, “Diamonds”, and
“Rocks” respectively. One word per cell only.
Under Date Delivered, type in “3/11/2012”, “3/20/2012”, “4/1/2012”,
“4/10/2012”, respectively. One word per cell only.
Under Number of Stocks, type in “100”, “250”, “80”, “300”, respectively.
One word per cell only.

13. Rename a cell.
Click on cell A1, go to Name Box and type
in “business”. Press Enter.

15. Edit a cell.
Click on cell B4 which is “3/11/2012”. Edit
it bydouble-clicking the cell and typing in
the new date which is “3/1/2012”. Press
Enter.

17. Delete a cell.
Click on cell A8 which is “Rocks”, and
pressBackspace or Delete.

19. Save File.
To save the document, go to File then click Save As.
Upon clicking Save, the Save As window will show.
Locate where you want to save your file then type the
name of file in the File Name box. ClickSave. Your
file is now saved.