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Quickly Create Incremental Numbers in an Excel Column

Normally, in Excel, you enter ‘1’ in a cell, and drag the ‘+’ sign in that cell’s border. This puts the value ‘1’ in all the cells in the drag range.

Now suppose you need incremental numbers in the cells instead of the same number; hold ‘CTRL’ and drag. Excel will create the numbers incrementally.

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