Fortunately, Excel enables users to instantly fill an entire row or selection of cells with the same formula with just a few keystrokes, with or without formatting.

Microsoft Excel updates cell references when you copy an expression. Here are a couple of workarounds for those rare occasions when you don't want to change the cell references.

Did you know that you can get Excel to identify important values -- like the top ten numbers in a list -- automatically? It's a feature called Conditional Formatting.

You don’t need to manually re-enter Excel spreadsheet data in another workbook. Learn how to copy a worksheet to another workbook here.

Yet Excel can also copy formatting styles without copying cell contents, letting you apply the copied style to tables you've already filled.