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Auto Fill

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:35 am

A feature found in software and applications, that lets you enter a series of numbers or characters in a specified range, and have the software complete the entry you started typing. In Microsoft Excel, for example, you can use a preset function to automatically fill a cell with data. Auto fill may also be spelled as autofill or auto-fill.