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Essential keyboard shortcuts

Essential keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are the best way to navigate cells or enter formulas more quickly. We’ve listed our favorites below.
  1. Ctrl +[Down|Up Arrow]: Moves to the top or bottom cell of the current column and combination of Ctrl with Left|Right Arrow key, moves to the cell furthest left or right in the current row
  2. Ctrl + Shift + Down/Up Arrow: Selects all the cells above or below the current cell
  3. Ctrl+ Home: Navigates to cell A1
  4. Ctrl+End: Navigates to the last cell that contains data
  5. Alt+F1: Creates a chart based on selected data set.
  6. Ctrl+Shift+L: Activate auto filter to data table
  7. Alt+Down Arrow: To open the drop down menu of autofilter.  To use this shortcut:
  8. Alt+D+S: To sort the data set
  9. Ctrl+O: Open a new workbook
  10. Ctrl+N: Create a new workbook
  11. F4: Select the range and press F4 key, it will change the reference to absolute, mixed and relative.
Note: This isn’t an exhaustive list. Feel free to share your favorite keyboard shortcuts in Excel in the comments section below. Literally, I do 80% of excel tasks using shortcuts.

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