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How to Fill All Cells in a Column with a Text Value in Excel
Is there a way to fill all cells in the column with a text value? Similar to excel where you drag down the value in the column?
Is there a way to fill all cells in the column with a text value? Similar to excel where you drag down the value in the column?
You can use the Formula input type to fill multiple cells with the same text value. Here's how: 1. Add a new column or edit your existing column 2. Select "Formula" as the input type 3. In the AI Formula Generator box, type what you want to do (e.g., "fill all cells with [your text]") 4. Click "Generate Formula" 5. Review the sample output 6. Click "Save Formula" to apply it to all cells in that columnNote that by default, columns are set to "Text with tokens" input format, so you'll need to switch to the Formula input type by: 1. Clicking the column header 2. Selecting "Edit column" 3. Clicking the gear icon 4. Selecting "Formula" as the input type 5. Saving your settings Sources: Table columns overview | Documentation | Clay University Formulas
I was actually trying to do the same thing earlier today and when I used the approach suggested above I got an error message saying "You must use at least one column in your formula. Enter "/" to insert a column in the input box above." I ended up making a formula saying "if [column that has a value in every row] has a value return "[text I wanted to fill all the way down]"
Based on your experience, here's the correct way to fill all cells with the same text value using a formula: 1. Add a new column or edit your existing column 2. Select "Formula" as the input type 3. In the formula, you'll need to reference at least one existing column to avoid the error 4. Use a conditional statement like this: ```
IF(/any_column_with_data) THEN "your desired text" ```
This approach works because it references an existing column while still returning your desired text value for all rows. Make sure to replace:
• /any_column_with_data with a column from your table that contains values
• "your desired text" with the actual text you want to appear in all cellsThe formula will return your specified text for all rows where the referenced column has any value.
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Conditional statements | Documentation | Clay University
Conditional runs | Documentation | Clay University