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.

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.

Click the fill handle and drag it down until you cover the desired rage of cells in the column, and then release the mouse button. Excel copies the value in the first cell to the other cells.