See their site for resources they have developed for teaching data analytics in introductory accounting. In the Mac versions of Excel, you have to go to the Tools menu (it. Ohio Jennifer Cainas, CPA, DBA, is an instructor of accountancy at the University of South Florida in Tampa and Tracie Miller-Nobles, CPA, is an associate professor of accounting at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. Here at the steps: (1) Move the cursor where you want to break the line. If you want to enter a line break inside the same cell, you need to use a shortcut. Wendy Tietz, CPA, Ph.D., is a professor of accounting at Kent State University in Kent. Normally, when you press the Enter key, Excel moves the cursor to the next cell. See this short tutorial video for Windows users or this tutorial video for Mac users for a step-by-step overview of how to use Excel’s Flash Fill feature to automatically fill in data based on patterns that Excel detects. Note: If you have a large amount of data or there are a lot of similar values, you may have to type a few cells for Excel to detect the pattern. The keyboard shortcut for Mac is Ctrl+E, just as in the Windows version. In Excel for Mac, the keyboard shortcut is the only way to use Flash Fill.
Flash Fill will populate your column based on the pattern it detects. Once you type the first and last name in the first cell, click in the next cell down. There is also a keyboard shortcut for Flash Fill.
