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To select every other row in Excel, follow these steps:
1. Click on the first cell of the column you want to select rows from.
2. Hold down the “Ctrl” key on your keyboard and click on every other row you want to select.
3. Release the “Ctrl” key and all the selected rows should be highlighted.
4. You can then perform any desired action on the selected rows, such as formatting or deleting.
This method allows you to quickly and efficiently select every other row in Excel without having to individually click on each one.
Select Every Other Row in Excel (With Example)
You can use the following basic formula to select every other row in Excel:
=OFFSET($A$1:$B$1,(ROW()-1)*2,0)
This formula selects every other row (for columns A and B) in the current sheet starting from row 1.
The following examples show how to use this formula in practice.
Example: Select Every Other Row in Excel
Suppose we have the following dataset in Excel that contains information about points scored by various basketball players:
We can use the following formula to select every other row in this dataset:
=OFFSET($A$1:$B$1,(ROW()-1)*2,0)We will type this formula into cell D1 and then drag and fill it down to the remaining cells in column D:
Notice that every other row has been selected from the original dataset.
We can manually verify this by identifying ever other row in the original dataset:
We can see that every other row from the original dataset has indeed been selected.
Note: In this example we used $A$1:$B$1 within the OFFSET function to tell Excel that we’d like to select all cells in columns A and B, starting from the first row.
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