You can select a single cell or a rectangular area of cells in the
spreadsheet. The selected cell(s) are displayed with a thick black border.
You can select a single cell in one of the following ways
You can also steer your way around with the arrow keys.
Pressing the Enter key will move the current selection one
position up, down, left or right depending on the setting in the
Misc
page of KSpread's configuration dialog
box.
If you hold the
Shift
key down while using the
arrow keys the selection will move to the start or end of the
block of occupied cells.
To select an area of contiguous cells drag the mouse cursor across the
desired area with the left button held down, or enter
the references of the top left and bottom right cells separated by a colon into
the Formula toolbar cell reference box (for example
B7:C14
) and press
Enter
, or enter these cell references
in a similar format into the dialog box brought up by
->
.
You can also select an area of cells by selecting the cell in one corner
of the wanted area then holding the
Shift
key down while using the
left mouse button to select the cell in the opposite
corner.
To select a complete row or column of cells left
click on the row number at the left of the worksheet or on the
column letters at the top. To select adjacent rows or columns drag the mouse
pointer over the appropriate row numbers or column letters with the
left button held down.
To select non-contiguous cells, click on the first cell you want to select
then hold the
Ctrl
key and select the other
cells.
