Excel 2007: what happened to the Auto Expand Selection tool?

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Published on 2009-12-21T22:42:01Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 14:03 UTC
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Older versions of Excel had a icon that would expand the selection to include any non-empty cells in all directions. It was an X shape with four arrowheads. You can still write VBA code to do this, but I really miss this tool. Did they just drop it from Excel 2007?

In older versions you had to go get it from the Customize menu because it wasn't on any toolbar by default.

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