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| Keyboard Shortcuts in MS Excel |
MS Excel Keyboard Short-cuts
MS Excel offers many keyboard short-cuts. If you are familiar with windows operating system, you should be aware of most of them. Below is the list of all the major shortcut keys in Microsoft Excel.
- Ctrl + A − Selects all contents of the worksheet.
- Ctrl + B − Bold highlighted selection.
- Ctrl + I − Italicizes the highlighted selection.
- Ctrl + K − Inserts link.
- Ctrl + U − Underlines the highlighted selection.
- Ctrl + 1 − Changes the format of selected cells.
- Ctrl + 5 − Strikethrough the highlighted selection.
- Ctrl + P − Brings up the print dialog box to begin printing.
- Ctrl + Z − Undo last action.
- Ctrl + F3 − Opens Excel Name Manager.
- Ctrl + F9 − Minimizes the current window.
- Ctrl + F10 − Maximize currently selected window.
- Ctrl + F6 − Switches between open workbooks or windows.
- Ctrl + Page up − Moves between Excel work sheets in the same Excel document.
- Ctrl + Page down − Moves between Excel work sheets in the same Excel document.
- Ctrl + Tab − Moves between Two or more open Excel files.
- Alt + = − Creates a formula to sum all of the above cells
- Ctrl + ' − Inserts the value of the above cell into cell currently selected.
- Ctrl + Shift + ! − Formats the number in comma format.
- Ctrl + Shift + $ − Formats the number in currency format.
- Ctrl + Shift + # − Formats the number in date format.
- Ctrl + Shift + % − Formats the number in percentage format.
- Ctrl + Shift + ^ − Formats the number in scientific format.
- Ctrl + Shift + @ − Formats the number in time format.
- Ctrl + Arrow key − Moves to the next section of text.
- Ctrl + Space − Selects the entire column.
- Shift + Space − Selects the entire row.
- Ctrl + - − Deletes the selected column or row.
- Ctrl + Shift + = − Inserts a new column or row.
- Ctrl + Home − Moves to cell A1.
- Ctrl + ~ − Switches between showing Excel formulas or their values in cells.
- F2 − Edits the selected cell.
- F3 − After a name has been created F3 will paste names.
- F4 − Repeat last action. For example, if you changed the color of text in another cell pressing F4 will change the text in cell to the same color.
- F5 − Goes to a specific cell. For example, C6.
- F7 − Spell checks the selected text or document.
- F11 − Creates chart from the selected data.
- Ctrl + Shift + ; − Enters the current time.
- Ctrl + ; − Enters the current date.
- Alt + Shift + F1 − Inserts New Worksheet.
- Alt + Enter − While typing text in a cell pressing Alt + Enter will move to the next line allowing for multiple lines of text in one cell.
- Shift + F3 − Opens the Excel formula window.
- Shift + F5 − Brings up the search box.
