Keyboard Shortcuts in Excel 2010

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.