how to move cells in excel
4. Use Excel's Insert Copied Cells function. Excel will automatically move the column to the left of the column currently selected. (The function may call itself Insert Cut Cells, depending on your particular setup.) Go to the Home tab and look in the Cells group.Click on Insert to find the Insert Copied Cells function. 1  5 Edit step.. Cut the information in the column. You can cut the data by clicking the scissor button on the toolbar, or by using the keyboard command. You should see a dotted line surrounding what you had selected previously. 1  The keyboard shortcut command on a Windows computer is ctrl-x, ctrl being the Control key.