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Thursday 12 March 2020
Keyboard shortcuts 7: Inserting a new worksheet
Here’s another easy yet useful keyboard shortcut for you – inserting a new worksheet into your Excel workbook. Your shortcut is Shift + F11. Go on – try it now!
Monday 9 March 2020
Keyboard shortcuts 6 – Save As
Another really helpful keyboard shortcut this week… The Save As… function is one of the most-used in Excel, but it can be fiddle to do, especially in newer versions of Excel where there are multiple mouse clicks required to find your hard drive, network area, etc. So, from now on, all you need to do is press the F12 key, and you’re there!
Monday 27 January 2020
Keyboard shortcuts 5: Copying the formula from the cell above
Here’s another
nice formula – particularly good as it saves you having to re-type,
or copy-and-paste, a formula to the cell below. A simply CTRL + ‘
will copy the formula from the cell above and put it in the cell
you’re on.
Thursday 16 January 2020
Keyboard shortcuts 4: Closing a workbook
Finished working on
an Excel workbook and want to move onto the next thing? Close it
quickly and easily with CTRL+W – and if you’ve not saved it yet,
Excel will ask you if you want to.
But don’t use the mouse – just
press Enter to save!
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Thursday 5 December 2019
Keyboard shortcuts 3: Selecting rows & columns
Following
on from the last tip about selecting cells using the keyboard, did
you know you can also select entire rows (shift + space) and columns
(ctrl + space).
So
tell me… are you beginning to think about ditching the mouse yet?
Comments below...
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Monday 2 December 2019
Keyboard shortcuts 2: Selecting cells
Here’s another
real time-saver as you continue your quest to ditch your mouse in
Excel (yes, really, please do that!) - it’s about selecting cells.
I guess usually you take the mouse, click in the first cell, drag to
the last cell, then release the mouse button. And sometimes you have
to do it twice because you don’t aim very well and you either miss
or over-shoot.
Well, next time,
just hold down the shift key
and use the arrow keys to select the cells. Try it 5 times and you’ll
find it’s a lot quicker than using the mouse. Why not give it a try
now?
Thursday 7 November 2019
Excel keyboard shortcuts 1: CTRL + Page Up/Down
Continuing our little series on keyboard shortcuts, here’s my favourite – never again do you need to use the mouse to move from one sheet to the next – instead, use CTRL + Page Down or CTRL + Page Up to move through your workbook.
Give it a try, and why not use the comments below to share your favourite keyboard shortcut, and I’ll try to feature it in a future blog post...
Give it a try, and why not use the comments below to share your favourite keyboard shortcut, and I’ll try to feature it in a future blog post...
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