Comments on: Using Fill Handle for the Alphabet https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/ ...because it's more than just a calculator Mon, 01 May 2017 15:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: larry https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-2067 Mon, 01 May 2017 15:10:00 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-2067 In reply to Sebastiaan.

=LEFT(ADDRESS(1,ROW(), 4), IF(ROW()>26, 2, 1))

]]> By: Don Delos Santos https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-1724 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:23:00 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-1724 Job well done.
thanks!

]]> By: Bigger Don https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-1485 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:00:39 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-1485 Of course MS changed things after 2007.

1. Click the File menu/tab.
2. When that opens, click Options from the left-hand side, near the bottom
3. When Excel options opens, click Advance.
4. When the Advanced Options open, scroll to near the bottom and click the EDIT CUSTOM LISTS button.

and away you go!

As to the A-Z and a-z, here’s yet another way to do this.
In A1, =char(row()+64)
In B1, =char(lower(A1))

Drag down to row 26, copy/PasteSpecial…Values.

Now do the Import.

]]> By: Scott DeLuzio https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-1104 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:10:37 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-1104 In reply to Orlando Mezquita.

Thanks for the tip. There’s always more than one way to get things done!

]]> By: Orlando Mezquita https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-1103 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:17:19 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-1103 Another alternative would be to enter =CHAR(ROW(A65)) and drag it down.

If the formula needs to be built to be drag it to the right then you could use:

=CHAR(64+COLUMN(A1))

]]> By: asif ullah https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-1034 Fri, 23 May 2014 06:09:56 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-1034 If you fill A to Z chareter in column-B, 1st type 65 in cell A1 and Ctrl+drag down up to A26 and then click cell B1, type =Char(A1) and enter again click in cell B1 drag down up to B26
Thanks

]]> By: kasusx https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-971 Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:14:58 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-971 great post, thanx

]]> By: Mohamed fawzy https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-934 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:01:12 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-934 Excellent specially the third one.
thank you.

]]> By: Sebastiaan https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-862 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:35:33 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-862 Is there any way to keep it going up till the end of the excel sheet? with all the formulas ive found its seems to end at one point or another. In other words I need it to include “Mashik” or “Hart” if i search those.

]]> By: Ken Wilmloth https://excelzoom.com/using-fill-handle-for-the-alphabet/#comment-803 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:05:24 +0000 http://excelzoom.com/?p=95#comment-803 @Beverly Reed
When you get to the point of having the alphabetic characters in column B, select the cells containing the alphabetic characters and then copy the cells; then move to column C and use “Paste Special” selecting to copy only “values”. Then then finish the “Copy Special” process. This will result in the cells of column C containing the desired alphabetic characters.

The “Copy Special” process is useful when copying the results of a calculations into situations when you want a “clean” result.

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