Q. In the past, I could enter 1/31/2019 in cell B1 and 2/28/2019 in cell C1, highlight both cells, and then drag the Fill Handle to the right to generate the headings 3/31/2019, 4/30/2019, 5/31/2019, ...

Microsoft Excel’s fill handle tool won’t create an alphabetic list by default, but there are a few tricks you can use to make it work. If you’ve tried to create an alphabetic list using Excel’s fill ...

You can enable and disable the Fill Handle feature in Excel settings. If you disable the Fill Handle feature, the white cursor will not change. This is what happens ...

Q: I bet I’m not the only one who hates using the mouse to grab that little slippery fill handle in Excel. The idea is great—click on the tiny handle and drag it to fill cells in a variety of ways.

Spreadsheet software is supposed to make life easier, not torture you with endless hours of data entry. Before you curse Excel and wish that you were working back in the good old days of paper ledgers ...