1.

Navigation
a. The arrow keys ( ): Navigating one cell at a time
b. Ctrl + Arrow keys: Navigating to the next non-blank cell (skipping
all intermediate blanks)
c. Ctrl + Home / End : Navigating to the first and the last used cell
(this could either be a cell with data in it, or a blank cell where
there used to be data)
d. Ctrl + PgUp/PgDwn: Navigating between multiple worksheets
e. Ctrl + Tab: Navigating between multiple workbooks
f. Press Alt, release it, and then use the left and right arrow keys: To
navigate between the ribbon tabs (home, insert, formulas, data
etc)
2. Selection
a. Shift + Arrow keys: Selecting one cell at a time
b. Shift + Ctrl + Arrow keys: Selecting entire contiguous blank/non-
blank cells
c. Shift + Ctrl + Home/End: Select all cells starting from the one
where the cursor is to the first/last used cell
d. Ctrl + Space: Select entire column
e. Shift + Space: Select entire row
f. Ctrl + A: Select entire range/table (provided you are already in a
cell in the said range/table). A second Ctrl+A will select the entire
sheet
3. Basic operations
a. Ctrl + Y/Z/X/C/V: Redo, Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste (in that order)
b. Ctrl + D: A combination of Ctrl+C and Ctrl +V (select a range of
cells in which the first one has a formula; Ctrl+D will copy the
formula to the entire selection)
c. Ctrl + Shift + V: Paste special (brings up the menu of paste options
- only values, values + formatting , formulas etc; the same can be
navigated using the arrow keys)
d. Ctrl + Shift + L: Activating/deactivating filters on a range
e. Alt + : If used while on the headers of a range with filters active,
this will bring up the filter drop-down menu
f. Ctrl + F: Find/Replace (use Tab key to toggle between the two
options)
g. Ctrl + - : Delete the entire row/column (select row/column first)
h. Ctrl + Shift + +: Add new row/column above/to the left of the
selected row/column
i. F4: Repeat last action (could be anything - formula, formatting
etc)
4. Formulae
a. Alt + = : Sum all cells above (contiguous)
b. Ctrl + ` (the second option on the tilda key below escape): Show
all formulae in the worksheet
5. Basic formatting
a. Alt + E + A + A: Clear the contents in all the selected cells
b. Ctrl + B/I/U: Bold/Italics/Underline
c. Ctrl + 1: Brings up the cell formatting options
d. Ctrl + $: Change formatting to currency
e. Ctrl + %: Change formatting to percentage
f. Ctrl + #: Change formatting to date
6. File options
a. Ctrl + S: Save the file
b. Ctrl + O: Open an existing excel file
c. Ctrl + N: New workbook
d. Alt + Shift + F1: New worksheet
7. Date and time
a. Ctrl+ ; : Insert todays date
b. Ctrl + Shift + ; : Insert current time