Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

Trevor Monteiro
Mar 19, 2023
Updated • Mar 16, 2023
Microsoft, Tutorials
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If using Excel is part of your daily life, you need a few keyboard shortcuts. Whether it be using worksheets, implementing formulas, or organizing your work, Excel shortcuts help improve productivity. We will provide some useful shortcuts that will help improve your Excel efficiency.

Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

Excel Shortcuts

Action Shortcut
General
Creating a new workbook Ctrl + N
Saving a workbook Ctrl + S
Opening the print menu Ctrl + P
Opening options in Excel  Alt, F, T
Opening the right-click menu Shift + F10
Protecting or unprotecting a workbook Alt, R, P, W
Protecting or unprotecting a worksheet Alt, R, P, S
Input and Editing
Copying Ctrl + C
Cutting Ctrl + X
Pasting Ctrl + V
Opening a Paste Special window Ctrl + Alt + V
Undoing Ctrl + Z
Redoing Ctrl + Y
Copying data and formatting from the above cell Ctrl + D
Using the Flash Fill function Ctrl + E
Inserting the current date Ctrl + ; (Semicolon)
Inserting the current time Ctrl + Shift + : (Colon)
Navigation and Selection
Moving to a cell Arrow key
Moving to the first cell Ctrl + Home
Moving to the last cell of the right populated column Ctrl + End
Moving to the first cell in the current row Home
Moving to the edge cell within a certain region Ctrl + Arrow key
Moving one screen up or down Page up/down
Moving one screen right or left Alt + Page down/up
Moving to the next or previous sheet Ctrl + Page down/up
Selecting a cell in a chosen direction Shift + Arrow key
Selecting one screen right or left Shift + Alt + Page down/up
Selecting a row Shift + Space
Selecting a column Ctrl + Space
Selecting additional rows, columns, or cells Ctrl + Left click
Selecting the entire active worksheet Ctrl + A
Toggling Ribbon shortcuts Alt
Navigating Ribbon sections Alt, Arrow key
Opening the Find and Replace function Ctrl + F
Zooming in Ctrl + Alt + = (Equals)
Zooming out Ctrl + Alt + - (Minus)
Visibility and Grouping
Hiding a row Ctrl + 9
Hiding a column Ctrl + 0
Opening the Group window function Shift + Alt + Right arrow
Opening the Ungroup window function Shift + Alt + Left arrow
Tables and Graphs
Creating a table Ctrl + T
Open the table styles window Alt, H, T
Inserting a row above Alt, H, I, R
Inserting a column to the left Alt, H, I, C
Opening the PivotTable menu Alt, N, V
Opening the PivotTable wizard Alt, D, P
Formatting
Opening the Format Cells window Ctrl + 1
Applying a General number format Ctrl + Shift + ~ (Tilde)
Applying the Currency format Ctrl + Shift + $ (Dollar)
Applying the Percentage format Ctrl + Shift + % (Percent)
Applying a Scientific format Ctrl + Shift + ^ (Caret)
Applying the Date format Ctrl + Shift + # (Hash)
Applying the Time format Ctrl + Shift + @ (At)
Applying or removing bold Ctrl + B
Applying or removing italic Ctrl + I
Applying left align Alt, H, A, L
Applying center align Alt, H, A, C
Applying right align Alt, H, A, R
Adjusting the row height Alt, H, O, H
Adjusting the column width Alt, H, O, W
Applying a bottom border Alt, H, B, O
Applying a top border Alt, H, B, P
Applying a left border Alt, H, B, L
Applying a right border Alt, H, B, R
Applying all borders Ctrl + Shift + & (Ampersand)
Removing all borders on selected cells Ctrl + Shift + _ (Underscore)
Opening the border menu Alt, H, B
Inserting a note Shift + F2
Formulas and Macros
Inserting the AutoSum formula Alt + = (Equal)
Expanding or collapsing the formula bar Ctrl + Shift + U
Opening the Insert function window Shift + F3
Opening the Visual Basic editor Alt + F11
Opening the Macro window Alt + F8

With so many cool shortcuts at your fingertips, you can see how your efficiency improves. We hope this article helps you and makes life simpler in the world of Microsoft Office.

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Comments

  1. Some Dude said on March 19, 2023 at 11:42 am
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    Are these articles AI generated?

    Now the duplicates are more obvious.

    1. boris said on March 19, 2023 at 11:48 pm
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      This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.

  2. Paul(us) said on March 20, 2023 at 1:32 am
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    Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
    1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
    2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro

    Why oh why?

    1. Clairvaux said on September 6, 2023 at 11:30 am
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      Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?

  3. John G. said on August 18, 2023 at 4:36 pm
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    Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.

    Special event by they is a special crap for us.

  4. yanta said on August 18, 2023 at 11:59 pm
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    If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
    Better brands at better prices elsewhere.

  5. John G. said on August 20, 2023 at 4:22 am
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    All new articles have zero count comments. :S

  6. Anonymous said on September 5, 2023 at 7:48 am
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    WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
    It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage

    I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one

  7. St Albans Digital Printing Inc said on September 5, 2023 at 11:53 am
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    Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.

  8. Anonymous said on September 5, 2023 at 12:47 pm
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    What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?

    1. GG said on September 6, 2023 at 8:24 am
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      Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.

      I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.

      And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?

      Nope, just charge the customer twice.

      Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.

  9. d3x said on September 5, 2023 at 7:33 pm
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    When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?

  10. Scroogled said on September 5, 2023 at 10:47 pm
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    Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.

  11. ard said on September 7, 2023 at 4:59 pm
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    For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
    quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
    unquote

    so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.

  12. Andy Prough said on September 7, 2023 at 6:52 pm
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    >”Now You: what is your theory?”

    That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.

    Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.

  13. TelV said on September 8, 2023 at 12:04 pm
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    Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.

  14. Anonymous said on September 18, 2023 at 1:23 pm
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    The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.

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