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On mac, for step two you want to move your mouse cursor so that you see the hand icon, not the four-way-arrow cursor.
– Scott Ritchie
Commented Jun 12, 2014 at 2:11
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I have Excel 2013 and it seems the default behavior now when you move a row after seeing four-way-arrow cursor is shifting behavior. Pressing SHIFT actual replaces destination row
– Korayem
Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 21:31
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I have Office365 (so I think I have whatever is latest version of Excel at time of post - I can't find a proper version number anywhere). Selecting ANY group of cells (not just rows/columns), moving to border to get 4-way arrow, and dragging moves data around - leaving an empty hole behind. Dropping it warns on overwrite. Shift+dragging attempts to reorder rows or columns, but only if full row/column selected. "Full" = all of some rectangular area - not necessarily full spreadsheet. // Confusion: must hover over boundary of data cells, not the row number or column letter - that resizes.
– Krazy Glew
Commented Jul 18, 2017 at 18:19
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Does anyone know of a shortcut to get this "4-way arrow" - keyboard shortcut, or a macro / Visual Basic (or whatever the new macro language is called)? I find it really hard to do this precisely with a mouse, let alone on a touchscreen or with a pen. Ideally I would like to have a "thumb" to drag rows and columns around like this.
– Krazy Glew
Commented Jul 18, 2017 at 18:21
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Does anyone know how to do this Google Sheets?
– Krazy Glew
Commented Jul 18, 2017 at 18:41

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