AERA is flexible on research project dates, depending on what is best for the applicant. The earliest date a grant may start is approximately three months following the application submission. Alternatively, an award start date of several months after the review date may be requested.
If you don't know what group edit is, here is a little explanation from the help file on Edit data on multiple worksheets. When you select several worksheets and then change the data on one of them, the changes are applied to the same cells on all the selected worksheets. And a nice note that can be useful.
Edit and Continue (Visual Basic) Edit and Continue is a feature for Visual Basic debugging that enables you to change your code while it is executing in Break mode. After code edits have been applied, you can resume code execution with the new edits in place and see the effect. You can use the Edit and Continue feature whenever you enter Break mode.