Here is a quick Excel tip to kick start your week.
Sometimes, we want to enter same data in to several cells. You can use CTRL+Enter to do this in a snap.
- Select all the cells where you want to enter the same data.
- Type the data
- Press CTRL+Enter
- Done!
See the animation aside to understand how this works.
Using CTRL+Enter to fill blanks with same value
We can use this technique to fill all the blank cells too.
- Select all the cells, Press F5
- Select “Special”
- Select “Blanks” to select all blank cells
- Now type whatever you want
- Press CTRL+Enter
- Done!
See this demo to understand this technique.

That is all for now. I have a lot of work to do since we are re-opening VBA classes this Wednesday (11th Jan). See ya.
Do you use CTRL+Enter? Share your tips & uses?
I use CTRL+Enter often when I need to fill in the same value in multiple places. What about you? Do you use this? How do you use it? Please share using comments.
Some more awesome Excel tips for you:
- Quickly Fill Blank Cells in a Table
- Quick Comparison of Data using Row Differences
- Delete Blank Rows in Excel
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7 Responses to “Build models & dashboards faster with Watch Window”
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Dear Chandoo,
This is a quite useful for myself. I highly appreciate your efforts for acquainting us with this value adding and time saving tip.
I'll admit it, I never saw this feature before. I was familiar with using Watch Window in VB, but not in workbook. I'll definitely use this in future when building dashboards!
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it was also a nice post,,,,,, sir
Hello Sir,
Really very nice post. I didn't use this features in past. But now going to use it..
Thanks a lot for every time come up with something new..
Thanks
Very Nice post sir.
Every Time posting something new.. Thanks a lot