To copy the contents of the active cell to all other cells in a selected range, press F2 and
then press Ctrl+Enter.
To fill a range with increments of a single value, press Ctrl while you drag the fill handle at the lower-right corner of the cell. To create a custom AutoFill list, select the Edit Custom Lists button on the Popular tab of the Excel Options dialog box. To copy a cell without incrementing, drag the fill handle at the lower-right corner of the selection; or, press Ctrl+D to copy down or Ctrl+R to copy to the right. To make text easier to read, you can enter line breaks in a cell. To enter a line break, press Alt+Enter. Line breaks cause a cells contents to wrap within the cell. To enter a fraction, type 0, a space, and then the fraction (using a slash). Excel formats the cell using the Fraction number format. To automatically format a cell with the currency format, type your currency symbol before the value. To enter a value in percent format, type a percent sign after the value. You can also include your local thousand separator symbol to separate thousands (for example, 123,434). To insert the current date, press Ctrl+; (semicolon). To enter the current time into a cell, press Ctrl+Shift+;. To set up a cell or range so that it accepts entries only of a certain type (or within a certain value range), choose the DataData ToolsData Validation command.