How to Fill Colors in a List in Excel. With Microsoft Excel, you can simplify data entry by adding a drop-down list to a cell, allowing users to pick an option from the list instead of entering data.

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn't. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem.

Learn how to how to increment numbers when value changes in another column. You can automatically fill increment cells in Excel such that the increment value across each cell remains constant.