Excel keyboard shortcuts

Undo

Edit a cell comment

Open the Formula Builder

Repeat the last Find (Find Next)

Display the Go To dialog box

Restore the window size.

This keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Mac OS X key assignment. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Mac OS X keyboard shortcut for this key. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Under Hardware, click Keyboard & Mouse. Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and then clear the On check box for the key assignment that you want to turn off.

Move to the previous pane in a workbook that has been split

Move to the previous workbook window

Turn on extend selection mode; used with arrow keys or cursor

Display the Macro dialog box

Calculate the active sheet.

This keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Exposé key assignment in Mac OS X version 10.3 or later. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Exposé keyboard shortcut for this key. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Under Personal, click Dashboard & Exposé.Under Keyboard Shortcuts, on the pop-up menu for the shortcut that you want to turn off, click –.

Maximize or restore the workbook window

Insert a new chart sheet.

This keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Exposé key assignment in Mac OS X version 10.3 or later. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Exposé keyboard shortcut for this key. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Under Personal, click Dashboard & Exposé.Under Keyboard Shortcuts, on the pop-up menu for the shortcut that you want to turn off, click –.

Insert an Excel 4.0 macro sheet

Display the Open dialog box

Move one cell up, down, left, or right

Move to the beginning of the row

Move to the last cell in use on the sheet, which is the cell at the intersection of the rightmost column and the bottom row (in the lower-right corner); or the cell opposite the home cell, which is typically A1

Move up one screen

Move one screen to the left

Move to the previous sheet in the workbook

Move to the previous workbook or window

Move to the previous pane in a workbook that has been split

Display the Go To dialog box

Repeat the last Find action (same as Find Next)

Display the Print dialog box

In print preview, move by one page when zoomed out

In print preview, move to the last page when zoomed out

Complete a cell entry and move down in the selection

Fill the selected cell range with the text that you type

Complete a cell entry and move to the right in the selection

Cancel a cell entry

Delete the character to the right of the insertion point, or delete the selection

Move one character up, down, left, or right

Repeat the last action

Fill down

Define a name

Edit the active cell and then clear it, or delete the preceding character in the active cell as you edit the cell contents

Enter a formula as an array formula

Display the Formula Builder after you type a valid function name in a formula

Activate a hyperlink

Open the Formula Builder

Calculate the active sheet

Toggle the formula reference style between absolute, relative, and mixed

Enter the date

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

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

Define a name

Display the Style dialog box

Apply the general number format

Apply the percentage format with no decimal places

Apply the date format with the day, month, and year

Apply the number format with two decimal places, thousands separator, and minus sign (-) for negative values

Add an outline border to the right of the selection

Add an outline border to the top of the selection

Remove outline borders

Apply or remove italic formatting

Apply or remove strikethrough formatting

Unhide rows

Unhide columns

Add or remove the outline font style

Cancel an entry in the cell or the formula bar

Paste text into the active cell

Enter a formula as an array formula

Copy the selection

Paste the selection

Delete the selection

Turn on Show Formulas view

Move from bottom to top within the selection (up), or move opposite to the direction that is selected in Edit in the Preferences dialog box (Excel menu, Preferences command)

Move from right to left within the selection, or move up one cell if only one column is selected

Move to the right between nonadjacent selections

Select the current region around the active cell (the current region is an area enclosed by blank rows and blank columns)

Extend the selection to the last nonblank cell in the same column or row as the active cell

Extend the selection to the beginning of the sheet

Select the entire column

Select the entire sheet

Extend the selection down one screen

With an object selected, select all objects on a sheet

Show or hide the Standard toolbar

Add another range of cells to the selection; or use the arrow keys to move to the start of the range you want to add, and then press F8 and the arrow keys to select the next range

Select all cells with comments

Select only cells that are directly referred to by formulas in the selection

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

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

Show the Category AutoComplete Menu

Move to the next item in the Category AutoComplete Menu

Scroll down one page in the Category AutoComplete Menu

Closes the Category AutoComplete Menu

Show the Priority menu

Assign the selected priority in the priority list

Close the priorities list and return to the cell

Show the menu for the second variable field in the header

Insert a new chart sheet.

This keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Exposé key assignment in Mac OS X version 10.3 or later. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Exposé keyboard shortcut for this key. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Under Personal, click Dashboard & Exposé.Under Keyboard Shortcuts, on the pop-up menu for the shortcut that you want to turn off, click –.

Alternate between hiding chart objects, displaying chart objects, and displaying placeholders for chart objects

Move to the same field in the next record

Move to the next field that you can edit in the record

Move to the first field in the next record

Move to the same field 10 records forward

Move to the same field 10 records back

Move one character left within a field

Select the character to the left

Display the AutoFilter list or PivotTable page field pop-up menu for the selected cell

Select the previous item in the AutoFilter list or PivotTable page field

Select the last item in the AutoFilter list or PivotTable page field

Display or hide outline symbols

Unhide selected rows

Unhide selected columns

Make the first button on a floating toolbar active

When a toolbar is active, select the previous button or menu on the toolbar

When a toolbar is active, select the previous toolbar

Switch to the next application

Close the active workbook window

Move to the next pane in a workbook that has been split

Switch to the next workbook window

Restore the window size.

This keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Mac OS X key assignment. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Mac OS X keyboard shortcut for this key. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Under Hardware, click Keyboard & Mouse. Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and then clear the On check box for the key assignment that you want to turn off.

Copy the image of the screen to the Clipboard.

This keyboard shortcut conflicts with a default Mac OS X key assignment. To use this Office keyboard shortcut, you must first turn off the Mac OS X keyboard shortcut for this key. On the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Under Hardware, click Keyboard & Mouse. Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and then clear the On check box for the key assignment that you want to turn off.

Move to the next text box

Switch to the next tab in a dialog box

Perform the action assigned to the default command button in the dialog box (the button with the bold outline, often the OK button)