Microsoft Excel 2013 surrounds the active cell with a dark border to help identify the cell you are editing. Pressing the Enter key after editing the cell moves the active cell to the next cell down.

By default, the active cell in Excel is noted by a green border. There’s no highlight or shading. Even if you change themes and colors, the active cell remains the same.

If the active cell is B6 and you type C10 in the Name Box, press and hold the Shift key of the keyboard and hit enter. You can see that range B6:C10 will be selected.

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