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How to Add Cells in Excel

By Madhuri ThakurMadhuri Thakur

How to Add Cells in Excel

How to Add Cells in Excel (Table of Contents)

  • Adding Cells in Excel
  • Examples of Add Cells in Excel

Adding Cells in Excel

Adding a cell is nothing but inserting a new cell or group of cells in between the existing cells by using the insert option in excel. We can insert the cells in row-wise or column-wise as per requirement, which allows us to input the additional data or new data in between the existing data.

Explanation: Sometimes, while working with Excel, we may forget to add some portion of date that should be inserted in between the existing data. In that case, we can cut the data and paste it a bit down or right and can input the required data in the gap. However, we can achieve the same without using the cut and paste option but by using the insert option in Excel.

There are four different options available to insert new cells. We will see each option and the respective example.

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We can insert new cells in two ways; one way is to select the insert option from the worksheet, and the other is the shortcut key. Click on the “Home” menu at the top left corner in case if you are in a different menu.

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how to Add cells in Excel 1.1

After the selection of “Home”, observe the right-hand side we have a section called “cells”. Which covers the options like “Insert”, “Delete”, and “format”, which are highlighted with a red colour box.

how to Add cells in Excel 1.2

Each option has a drop-down if we observe under each option name. Click on the Insert option drop down then the drop-down menu will appear as below.

Insert Cells

It has four different options: insert cells, insert sheet rows, insert sheet columns, and insert sheet. Click on the option Insert cells; then it will open a pop-up menu with four options as below.

how to Add cells in Excel 1.4

Examples of Add Cells in Excel

Here are some examples of How to Add Cells in Excel, which are given below

You can download this How to Add Cells Excel Template here – How to Add Cells Excel Template

Example #1 – Add a Cell using Shift Cells Right

Consider a table having data of two columns like below.

how to Add cells in Excel 1.5

Now it has three rows of data. But in case if we need to add a cell at the cell B4 by moving the data to the right, we can do that. Follow the steps.

Step 1: Select the cell where you want to add a new cell. Here we have selected B4 as shown below.

how to Add cells in Excel 1.6

Step 2: Select the Insert menu option for the drop-down as below.

Insert menu option

Step 3: Select the Insert Cells option then a pop-up menu will appear as below.

Shift Cell Right

Step 4: Select the “Shift cells right” option, then click on OK. Then the result will appear as below.

how to Add cells in Excel 1.9

If we observe the above screen, number 3 is shifted to the right and created a new empty cell. This is how “shift cell right” will work. Similarly, we can do the shift cells down also.

Example #2 – Insert a New Column and New Row

To add a new column, follow the below steps. It is as similar to shifting cells.

Step 1: Consider the same table which we took in the above example. Now we need to insert a column in between the two columns.

how to Add cells in Excel 2.1

Step 2: A column will always be added on the left-hand side; hence select any one cell in the number of units as below.

how to Add cells in Excel 2.2

Step 3: Now select the “Entire column” option from the insert option as shown in the below image.

Select Entire Column

Step 4: Select the OK button. A new column will be added in between the existing two columns as below.

how to Add cells in Excel 2.4

In a similar way, we can add the row by clicking the Entire row option as below.

Select Entire Row

The result will be as below. A new row is added between the data X and Y.

how to Add cells in Excel 2.6

Example #3 – Adding Rows After Each Row using the Sort Option

Up to now, we covered how to add a single cell by shifting cells right and down, adding an entire row an entire column.

But these actions will affect only one row or one column. In case if we want to add an empty row under each existing row, we can perform in another way. Follow the below steps to add an empty row.

Step 1: Take the same table which we used in the previous example.

how to Add cells in Excel 3.1

Step 2: Take some reference for the time being column ‘C’ as below.

how-to-Add-cells-in-Excel-3.2

Step 3: Now copy the references and paste them in under the last reference in the table as below.

how to Add cells in Excel 3.3

Step 4: To add an empty line under each existing data line, we are using a sorting option. Highlight the entire table and click on the sort option. It is available under “Home”, highlighted in the below picture for reference.

Sort and Filter

Step 5: From the drop-down of the Sort option, select the custom sort.

Custom sort

Step 6: A window will open as below.

how to Add cells in Excel 3.6

Step 7: From Sort by select the “Reference” option as shown in the below image.

Select the Reference Option

Step 8: Select OK, then see it will sort in such an empty line between each data existing line as below.

how to Add cells in Excel 3.8

Step 9: Now, we can remove the reference column. I hope you understand why we added the reference column.

how to Add cells in Excel 3.9

Example #4 – Adding Multiple Rows or Columns or Cells

If we want to add multiple lines or cells at the same time, highlight the number of cells or lines that you required and perform the insert option as per selection. If we select the multiple row lines as below.

Adding Multiple Rows

Now use the insert option, which we add for rows.

how to Add cells in Excel 4.2

The moment we select “insert cells”, it will directly add the rows without asking for another pop-up as how it asked before. Here we highlighted 3 lines; hence when we click on “Insert Cells”, it will add another 3 empty lines under the selected lines.

Things to Remember

  • “Alt + I” is the shortcut key to add a cell or line in the excel spreadsheet.
  • A new cell can be added only on the right-hand side and down only. We cannot add the cells to the left and up; hence whenever you want to add the cells to highlight the cell as per this rule.
  • A row will always be added at the bottom of the highlighted cell.
  • A column will always be added on the left side of the highlighted cell.
  • If you want to add multiple cells or rows at a time, highlight multiple cells or rows.

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