For even more shortcuts, see Microsoft’s Office site. Most work whether you’re using a subscription (Microsoft 365/Office 365) or non-subscription version of Excel. We’ve listed the shortcuts we’ve found the most useful below. (Fewer shortcuts are available for the Mac, but you can create your own custom keyboard shortcuts if you like.)
There are keyboard shortcuts to accomplish a vast array of tasks in the Excel desktop client, in both the Windows and Mac versions. Why bother to lift your hands from the keyboard if you want to open or close a file, apply formatting to cells, navigate through workbooks, undo and redo actions, calculate all worksheets in all open workbooks, and more? With keyboard shortcuts you won’t have to. Excel’s Ribbon is great for finding everything you might ever want to do in a spreadsheet, particularly things you don’t do frequently, like managing and querying data connections or automatically grabbing geographic statistics from the internet and inserting them into cells.īut if you’re looking to do things fast, you’ll find keyboard shortcuts far more useful.
