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Using shortcuts saves a lot of time and it shows your proficiency in application usage. Here we have listed a complete list of Microsoft Excel keyboard shortcuts and their descriptions. These are categorized by Excel shortcuts with function keys, Excel shortcuts with Control key and Miscellaneous. All these keys work with Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2007 and prior versions.
Below is a listing of all the major shortcut keys usable in Microsoft Excel. See the computer shortcut page if you are looking for shortcut keys used in other programs. This list gives you a glance of (nearly) all shortcut combinations in Excel. Please take the time to read it. I'm sure you'll find many of them useful.
Function Keys | Description |
F1 | Open "Microsoft Office Excel Help". |
F2 | Edit an Excel cell. |
F3 | Displays the "Paste Name" dialog box. |
F4 | Repeats the last action. |
F5 | Opens "Go To" dialog box. |
F6 | Switches between worksheet and menu / Ribbon. |
F7 | Spelling Check. |
F8 | Switches Extend mode on / off. |
F9 | Calculates all worksheets in all open workbooks. |
F10 | Highlights shortcut keys of Menu and Ribbon items. |
F11 | Creates chart of selected cells. |
F12 | Opens "Save As" dialog box. |
Keys | Description |
ESC | Escapes dialog box, message box and discards text while writing in cell. |
TAB | selects right side cell. |
SHIFT + TAB | selects left side cell. |
CTRL + TAB | Switches to next tab in dialog box. |
CTRL + SHIFT + TAB | Switches to previous tab in dialog box. |
BACKSPACE | Clears the whole content of the active cell if a cell selected. Clear a character to left side while editing or writing content in cell. |
ENTER | Moves to one cell downwards. |
ALT + ENTER | Inserts a line break within a cell. |
CTRL + ENTER | Paste copied cell to all selected cells. |
SHIFT + ENTER | Moves to one cell upwards. |
SPACEBAR | Checks / Unchecks the checkbox, radio button and works like ENTER key in dialog box. |
CTRL + SPACEBAR | Selects an entire column in a worksheet. |
SHIFT + SPACEBAR | Selects an entire row in a worksheet. |
CTRL + SHIFT + SPACEBAR | CTRL + SHIFT + SPACEBAR once will select current data range, second time it will select whole sheet cells and third time it will select whole worksheet. |
ALT +SPACEBAR | Displays the Control menu for the Microsoft Office Excel window. |
DELETE | Removes the text data from cell (Not formatting). |
HOME | Moves to leftmost cell in the row. |
CTRL + HOME | Moves to the top-left cell of a worksheet. |
CTRL + SHIFT + HOME | Selects cells to the beginning of the data range from current cell. |
END | Moves to the cell in the lower-right corner of the window (If SCROLL LOCK is turned on). |
CTRL + END | Moves to the last cell in the lower-right corner of window. |
CTRL + SHIFT END | Selects cells to the end of the data range from current cell. |
PAGE UP | Moves the current view of worksheet to one screen up. |
CTRL + PAGE UP | Moves to the previous sheet in workbook. |
ALT + PAGE UP | Moves the current view of worksheet to one screen to the left. |
CTRL + SHIFT + PAGE UP | Moves to the previous sheet in workbook. |
PAGE DOWN | Moves the current view of worksheet to one screen down. |
CTRL + PAGE DOWN | Moves to the next sheet in workbook. |
ALT + PAGE DOWN | Moves the current view of worksheet to one screen to the right. |
CTRL + SHIFT + PAGE DOWN | Moves to the next sheet in workbook. |
ARROW | Move to one cell left / right / up / down. |
CTRL + ARROW | Move to extreme left / right / up / down in a selected data range or blank sheet. |
SHIFT + ARROW | Select / deselect one cell in the left / right / up / down from current cell. |
CTRL + SHIFT + ARROW | Select / deselect current range of data or blank sheet in the left / right / up / down from current cell. |
ALT + DOWN ARROW | Show a list of data in cells above to current cell as a dropdown. |
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