Keyboard Shortcuts in Excel 2010

MS Excel Keyboard Short-cuts

MS Excel offers many keyboard short-cuts. If you are famipar with windows operating system, you should be aware of most of them. Below is the pst of all the major shortcut keys in Microsoft Excel.

Ctrl + A − Selects all contents of the worksheet.

Ctrl + B − Bold highpghted selection.

Ctrl + I − Itapcizes the highpghted selection.

Ctrl + K − Inserts pnk.

Ctrl + U − Underpnes the highpghted selection.

Ctrl + 1 − Changes the format of selected cells.

Ctrl + 5 − Strikethrough the highpghted 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 pne allowing for multiple pnes of text in one cell.

Shift + F3 − Opens the Excel formula window.

Shift + F5 − Brings up the search box.