Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheets for your calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and macro programming needs.

Learning Excel: Shortcut keys using Ctrl Tab

In this article, we will discuss 41 shortcuts on excel that can be done using the Ctrl Tab

1. Ctrl+A : Select all contents of a worksheet.

2. Ctrl+B : Bold all cells in the highlighted section.

3. Ctrl+C : Copy

4. Ctrl+V : Paste

5. Ctrl+O :Open an existing workbook.

6. Ctrl+N : Create a new workbook.

7. Ctrl+S : Save

8. Ctrl+W : Close a workbook.

9. Ctrl+F : Search the current sheet.

10. Ctrl+H : Find and replace.

11. Ctrl+Z : Undo a section

12. Ctrl+Y : Redo a section.

13. Ctrl+K : Inserts a hyperlink

14.Ctrl+X : Cuts the contents of a cell or a selected content.

15. Ctrl+B : Do/redo Bold.

16. Ctrl+I : Do/Redo Italics

17. Ctrl+U : Underline

18.Ctrl+F1 : Show or hide the ribbon.

19. Ctrl+F2 : Open Print preview

20. Ctrl+F4 : Close Excel.

21. Ctrl+F9 : Minimize workbook.

22. Ctrl+F10 : Restore workbook.

23. Ctrl+Shift+; : Insert the time in the active cell.

24. Ctrl+Shift+# : Insert the date format in dd/mm/year format

25. Ctrl+Shift+( : Unhides any rows in the selected area.

26. Ctrl+Shift+) : Unhides any column in the selected area.

27.Ctrl+9 : Hide Row.

28. Ctrl+0 : Hide column.

29.Ctrl+Shift+$ : Currency format.

30. Ctrl+Shift+% : Percentage format.

31. Ctrl+Shift+& : Apply Outline border.

32. Ctrl+Shift+_ : Remove Outline border.

33. Ctrl+Space : Select the entire column

34.Ctrl+Shift+Space : Select the entire workbook

35. Shift+Space : Select the entire row.

36. Ctrl+Home : Move to the beginning of the workbook.

37. Ctrl+PgUp : Move to the previous sheet.

38. Ctrl+PgDn : Move to the next sheet.

39. Ctrl+End : Move to the most bottom right used cell. :

40. Ctrl+UP arrow : Move to the top cell of the column.

41.Ctrl+Down arrow : Move to the bottom of the column.

 
 

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