Excel Keyboard Shortcuts
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 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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Now the duplicates are more obvious.
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.
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?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
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.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
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
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
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.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
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.
>”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.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
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.