Comprehensive List of Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

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Few weeks back I have invited all of you to share your excel keyboard shortcuts in a open thread. More than 50 people commented on that post and shared a hundred excel keyboard shortcuts with us. There were so many wonderful keyboard shortcuts and tricks buried in the comments section of that post. During the weekend, I spent sometime to collect all these beautiful shortcuts and arranged them neatly so that you can easily learn them. Here is the complete list of Excel Keyboard Shortcuts.

Special thanks to all the commenters on the original post. Without you I couldn’t have learned these shortcuts.

Comprehensive List of Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

Here is the complete list of excel keyboard shortcuts.

Note: I have *ed some of the most important shortcuts. These are very useful and extremely time saving ones. You may want to remember a few to boost your productivity.

Select the whole column

Selection

CTRL + SPACE

Select the whole row

Selection

SHIFT + SPACE

Select table

Selection

SHIFT + CTRL + SPACE bar

Save

Selection

CTRL + s

Select visible cells only

Selection

ALT + ;

Select entire region

Selection

CTRL + A

Select range from start cell to far left

Selection

SHIFT + Home

Select range from start cell to end in direction of arrow

Selection

SHIFT + End + arrow

Select a continuous range of data (e.g. pivot), no matter where your cursor is.

Selection

CTRL + *

Select blank cells

Selection

F5 + ALT + S + K + ENTER

Select all cells with comments

Selection

CTRL + SHIFT + O

Select all cells that are directly or indirectly referred to by formulas in the selection

Selection

CTRL + SHIFT + {

Select all cells with formulas that refer directly or indirectly to the active cell

Selection

CTRL + SHIFT + }

Selects all the way to a1 from cursor position

Selection

CTRL + SHIFT + HOME

Select cells in the direction of arrow

Selection

CTRL + SHIFT + Arrow

Previous sheet

Navigation

CTRL + Page Up

Next sheet

Navigation

CTRL + Page Down

Launch GO TO Dialog (from here you can select special or jump to a cell or range)

Navigation

F5

Go to top left (will go to top left of freezed pane if set)

Navigation

CTRL + Home

Go to last non-blank cell

Navigation

CTRL + end

Go to previous sheet

Navigation

CTRL + PgUp

Go to next sheet

Navigation

CTRL + PgDn

Print

Navigation

CTRL + p

Toggle between workbooks in a given session of excel.

Navigation

CTRL + TAB

Change the type of cell reference from relative to absolute or semi-absolute

Formulas

F4

Repeat whatever you did last

Formulas

F4

Debug portions of a formula (select and press)

Formulas

F9

Sum range

Formulas

ALT + =

Enter array formula

Formulas

CTRL + SHIFT + Enter

Select array formula range

Formulas

CTRL + /

Display range names (can be used when typing formulas)

Formulas

F3

Evaluate formulas. (its easy to remember when working with some “tuf” formulas!)

Formulas

ALT + TUF

Copy a formula from above cell and edit

Formulas

CTRL + '

Display the formula palette after you type a valid function name in a formula

Formulas

CTRL + A (while writing a formula)

Alternate between displaying cell values and displaying cell formulas

Formulas

CTRL + ` (Single Left Quotation Mark)

Calculate formulas

Formulas

F9

Select all precedent cells

Formulas

CTRL + [

Select all dependent cells

Formulas

CTRL + ]

Format Selection (cells, objects, charts)

Formatting

CTRL + 1

Bold a cell’s content

Formatting

CTRL + B

Format Painter – Paste formats from selection

Formatting

ALT + EST

Format as number with 2 dp

Formatting

CTRL + SHIFT + 1

Format as local currency

Formatting

CTRL + SHIFT + 4

Format as percentage with 0 dp

Formatting

CTRL + SHIFT + 5

Hide row

Formatting

CTRL + 9

Hide column

Formatting

CTRL + 0

Unhide row

Formatting

CTRL + SHIFT + 9

Unhide column

Formatting

CTRL + SHIFT + 0

Display the style command format menu

Formatting

ALT + '

Sets/removes strikeout in current cell

Formatting

CTRL + 5

Show/hide the top bar when you have a group

Formatting

Crtl + 8

Single border around selected cells

Formatting

CTRL + SHIFT + 7

Sort

Formatting

ALT + DS

Insert hyperlink

Formatting

CTRL + K

Freeze panes

Formatting

ALT + WFF

Remove grid lines or (alt+t)ov(alt+g)[enter]

Formatting

ALT + WVG (2007+)

To wrap lines

Formatting

ALT + HW (2007+)

Save as

Excel Options

F12

Collapse the ribbon (press again to expand)

Excel Options

CTRL + F1

Opens print preview

Excel Options

CTRL + F2

Maximize the current window

Excel Options

ALT + SPACE X

Activate next window

Excel Options

ALT + TAB

Activate previous window

Excel Options

ALT + SHIFT + TAB

Close an excel workbook

Excel Options

crtl + F4

Split screens

Excel Options

ALT + W + S

Create a pivot table in new sheet (of course after selecting the range)

Everything Else

ALT + DPF

Create a pivot table in the same sheet.

Everything Else

ALT + DPN

Show visual basic editor

Everything Else

ALT + F11

Macro dialog

Everything Else

ALT + F8

Apply/remove filter

Everything Else

ALT + DFF

Keep filter on columns, but show all rows

Everything Else

ALT + DFS

Insert pivot table

Everything Else

ALT + NVT

Turn filter on or off

Everything Else

CTRL + SHIFT + L

Paste values only

Editing

ALT + ESV

Edit a cell, place cursor at the end

Editing

F2

Show in-cell drop down with previously entered values

Editing

ALT + Down arrow

Fills down value from cell above

Editing

CTRL + D

Add a comment or Edit comment

Editing

SHIFT + F2

Insert new sheet

Editing

SHIFT + F11

Insert row

Editing

CTRL + +

Delete row

Editing

CTRL + -

Copy

Editing

CTRL + C

Paste

Editing

CTRL + V

Cut

Editing

CTRL + X

Undo

Editing

CTRL + Z

Get a line break inside the cell

Editing

ALT + Enter (while editing the cell)

Clear all contents

Editing

ALT + EAA

Copy

Editing

CTRL + insert

Paste

Editing

SHIFT + Insert

Make chart/pivot chart

Editing

F11

Edit a cell in Apple Macs

Editing

CTRL + U

Copy the value from the cell above the active cell into the cell or the formula bar

Editing

CTRL + SHIFT + "

Copies whatever is in the cell to the left of it.

Editing

CTRL + R

Delete box (cell, row, column)

Editing

ALT + ED

Insert box (cell, row, column)

Editing

ALT + IE

Enter current date

Auto Complete

CTRL + ;

Enter current time

Auto Complete

CTRL + :

Thanks to the contributors

Here is a list of people who contributed these shortcuts.

Vipul, Dau, Stružák, Paul, Eliavs, Pavel S, Fabrice, Noone, Clarity, Jp, Pascal, Jair, Yoav, Nimesh, Bill, Patricia, Mike, Iesmatauw, Chrisham, Harvey, Pranav, Rohit Choudhary, Rohit1409, Rickard, Sachin, Gerald Higgins, Ericlind, Zzz, Felipe, Sridhar, Halva, Catherine, Lavkesh Bhatia, Rick Rothstein, Vishal Haria, Ak, Daniel Ferry, Mehdi Raza.

Thank you 🙂

Share your shortcuts

I know this post is unusally lengthy. But I wanted the list to be as comprehensive as possible. If you know some shortcuts that are not listed, please share them using comments. 🙂

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28 Responses to “2010 Calendar – Excel Template [Downloads]”

  1. [...] Download and print the calendars today. You can add notes to individual dates or complete … [...] Uni Ego / Free 2010 Calendar – Download and Print Year 2010 Calendar today [...]

  2. William says:

    Afternoon,

    I have one similar calander that I added conditional formatting to so that I could highlight any planned factory holidays. I think i "borrowed" the formula from another calander so I won't post it here.

    I also added week numbers to it using the formula =WEEKNUM(MAX(C6:I6)) Where C6:I6 is the range of dates in that give week. It works fine on most of the months but return strange values on other months (Week 6 in October?) I can't see any logic behind why it does this.
    Any suggestions for an alternative formula to give the week numbers?

    Regards,

    William

  3. Miguel says:

    Hi Chandoo,
    I've added a new feature on your spreadsheet.
    This control can be useful for all the sheets where you need to check dates.

    Cheers

    http://cid-69a78592a23a8438.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/2010-calendar%5E_Miguel.xls

  4. Nimesh says:

    Hi Chandoo,

    Nice calendar.
    Till now whichever calendar I saw in Excel, it contained only the outline sheet.
    Good to see monthly views and the mini view too.
    Liked the mini view much. 🙂

    -Nimesh

  5. Chandoo says:

    @William: This weeknum may be because the input dates to max are not properly formatting as excel dates.

    Good tip on the conditional formatting and holidays btw...

    @Migueal: Now that is super awesome. This is the reason why I love to blog. Readers will always one up me with such cool alternatives. Thank you for sharing this with us.

    @Nimesh: You are welcome 🙂

  6. Shish says:

    is it possible to get the Notes section on the outline page to display the notes added to the month page for a specific date?

    So if you add thing for January 2nd, and then select January 2nd those notes appear on the outline page

  7. Chandoo says:

    @Shish... You can do that using some formula magic. I would not recommend pushing excel to that as outlook / google calendar / icalc etc. do exactly that much more elegantly.

  8. Jörg says:

    Happy christmas to all of you!
    This is really awesome. The nicest calender I've seen for Excel. I also like Miguels version of the sheet.

    Just one "feature" is missing to me. As I live in Germany - where weeks start on Monday - I'd like to change this. Could someone please give me a hint how to do this?

    Thanks in advance

    Jörg

  9. Pedro says:

    Hi Chandoo, I’ve added some new features on your spreadsheet with your permission.

    Check it here:
    http://cid-6b219f16da7128e3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Calendar%5E_Pedro.xlsm

    Miguel, this calendar is translated to Spanish language.

    Jörg, this new approach allows us to start weeks on Monday.

    Also it's possible to start weeks on Sunday if you enable Excel macros and push the arrows.
    Best Regards,
    Pedro.

  10. Chandoo says:

    @Pedro.. superb stuff.. thanks for sharing the file with all of us.

  11. Pedro says:

    Hi Chandoo, for dates before March 1, 1900 our calendars are wrong.
    In Microsoft Excel, DATE, EOMONTH, WEEKDAY functions return an incorrect result between Monday, January 1, 1900 and Wednesday, February 28, 1900.
    See this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214326/en-us/
    Microsoft Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year in all Excel versions.
    That's the reason why our calendar versions only work from March, 1, 1900 until December, 31, 9999.
    Your comments are welcome.
    Pedro.

  12. Chandoo says:

    @Pedro.. Thanks for pointing that out. wow... This reminds me of the Joel Spolsky's first BillG review - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html (read it, I am sure you would love it.) when Bill out of blue asks about date time implementations for VBA (which Joel is the program manager for...)

    Thanks for sharing the URL too... Here is a specially made, chocolate sprinkled, extra fluffy donut for you 🙂

  13. Pedro says:

    Hi Chandoo, thanks a lot for the donut but I prefer it without chocolate!

    Always it's good to know a little history of Excel.
    The Joel Spolsky’s last BillG Excel review was about the "Hall of Tortured Souls"
    (See this Excel 95 Easter Egg here: http://www.eeggs.com/items/719.html)

    Do not miss the humor!

  14. Pedro says:

    @Chandoo.. I just return with a new calendar version.
    http://cid-6b219f16da7128e3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/calendar-pedrowave.xltx

    It helped me to practice conditional formatting, formulas to show check boxes, data validation drop down list, find out Thanksgiving Day's date for any year, how to find dates of public holidays using Excel, all reading your wonderful posts!

  15. Pedro says:

    Perpetual Calendar Spanish version starting weeks on Monday:
    http://cid-6b219f16da7128e3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/calendario-pedrowave.xltx
    Main characteristics:
    - Not macros.
    - Select a year from 1900 to 9999 with a dropdown listbox.
    - All date fields with the real date format.
    - Easy language change of day of the week and month names because are also dates.
    - Hide Saturdays and/or Sundays.
    - Week starting on Sunday or Monday.
    - Week and month numbers.
    - Hyperlink between sheets.
    - Consistent colors to Holidays, Diary and Events dates.
    - Easy change of Holidays by country.
    - Include 80 World Days and you can add more.
    - A diary with my birthday and 50 more programable appointments.
    - Check box to hide individual dates or all.
    - Holidays, diary and events text are showed on each month's sheet.
    - Ranges defined with Name Manager variables.
    I'll appreciate if you make me some suggestions to improve this calendar.
    Pedro.

  16. Joco1114 says:

    Please, I need help!
    I like all calendar from Pedro, thank you for them. Let me show my problem:

    I have 2 excel cells (for example AE12 and AE13) which mean the starting and the ending date of my duty. I need a macro to insert sheets with label YEAR. MONTH (for example 2010. August or similar) with the proper datas between the two dates. Is it possible?

    Thank you for reading me and sorry about my terribel english! 🙂

  17. Peter says:

    Hello Pedro,

    Thanks so much for the modified calendar template. I love the extra functionality you added. Is there any way you could upload an unlocked version? I wanted to change some of the comments and data validation so I could use it for one of my applications.

    As for feedback on potential improvements, with all the additions you made the file runs pretty slow. I'm sure this has to do with all the interconnectivity between the various tabs, but if there is a way to use less memory via more efficient formulas or something else I think this would make it easier to use. I have a brand new computer and with it running alone the response was pretty slow. One of the changes I'm making is changing the order of the months to match my company's fiscal year, so maybe something to automate a change like that could be useful.

    Cheers,

    Peter

  18. Pedro Wave says:

    Peter, my calendars are unlocked but you need Excel 2007 and 2010 versions to open them.

    Now I return with a new Programmable Task Calendar:
    http://cid-6b219f16da7128e3.office.live.com/view.aspx/.Public/Calendario%20de%20Tareas.xlsx

    Wath an introductory video here:
    http://pedrowave.blogspot.com/2010/10/programmable-task-calendar.html

    This new calendar allows to select the start month to match the school and fiscal year.

  19. ASA says:

    This is great stuff Chandoo and company

    Wanted to know if someone had built something similar

    I need to store one Excel Sheet on this calendar that has all the holidays

    US Holidays appear in RED
    UK Holidays appear in Blue
    Meetings appear in Green
    Submissions appear in Orange

    Is there a way I can store the list in a separate worksheet and all the calendars get updated with this?

    Thanks

  20. divya says:

    please tell me "how to convert Rs.10000/- in to words through excel formula

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  22. Kerisa says:

    Greetings,

    Thanks for this wonderful excel vacation tracker. I notice that the tracker only has three months November, December and January 2015, however, I would like to add the other ten months for 2014. Can you please instruct me on how I can add the other months?
    Thanking you in advance.

  23. kanu bhatia says:

    Hi Chandoo,
    Calendar: can this be printed as single sheet 8.5x11 inch per month
    kanu

  24. Rahul says:

    WOW! I just searching some of like this, that help me.
    Thank you for sharing.

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