How to move selection in Excel?

Question

I know how to create or extend selections, i.e., via F8 or Shift F8. When I have created the desired selection, I would like to move that particular selection a few cells to the right and/or down.

I now need to select the similar form selection on another place in the worksheet. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Example:

Selection made on A1..B3, C3 and D5 and, for instance, made it Yellow. I now want to move this complete selection four places to the right, to E1..F3, H3 and I5 (to be able to make it another color).

It has nothing to do with the cut and paste to move cells.

Answer 1

The only solution I know of is cut & paste. That's also what all the excel tutorials recommend for thing.

Simply click on the column header, then Ctrl+X, then on the new col-header, and Ctrl+V.

Answer 2

You probably have to resort to macros to do this. I would assign a shortcut key to a macro that looks like this

Dim myRange As Range
Set myRange = Selection
myRange.Offset(0, 1).Select