One of the advantages of working in this Microsoft program is that it offers you a lots of tools and functions that allow you to create professional spreadsheets in a very easy and fast way. Usually when working on these spreadsheets different elements need to be inserted into them.
Among the most common elements that are frequently inserted are the rows, cells and columns, the latter being one of the most used elements. All this will allow you edit and create your fully customized Excel files.
According to this, here we are going to explain what are the steps that you must take into account when you want insert a column to your worksheet. For this, it will be necessary to follow each of the steps that we are going to teach you in detail.
What should we consider before adding a column in Excel?
At the moment of wanting add a column to your spreadsheet you should keep in mind that if you have other information added there this could be affected. Especially what are the formulas and the functions. The most recommended in these cases is insert these elements at the beginningthat is, when no other has been added yet information to sheet. This will prevent your information may undergo changes or may simply become disordered.
Steps to insert a column in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet easy and fast
Taking into account all of the above, the following will be teach you how to insert a column into your Excel worksheet. Keep in mind that this procedure is quite simple and quick to do.
To do this, follow the steps that we will indicate below:
- The first thing you should do is enter Microsoft Excel.
- There you go to set all data that are necessary in spreadsheet.
- In case you want add a column you must keep in mind that it is always it will be added to the left side of the box you have selected. In the example that we show you below you can see the months of January to June, but between April and June it is necessary may. In this case it should add a column to complete that month.
- To do this select the box "June" and right click with the mouse, there select the option "Insert".
- A box with four options will appear, in this case select "Insert an entire column" and click on "To accept".
- As you can see in the next picture It has been inserted a new column to the left side of the selected box, in this case you can already create the column of "May" in excel spreadsheet.
