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Monday, November 30, 2009

MS Excel Navigation Shortcuts

There are several navigational shortcuts that can help one expedite the work by allowing quick Navigation within worksheet and across worksheets/workbook in Microsoft Excel. Below tables lists such know short-cuts. Some shortcuts are likely to be specific to a particular version of Microsoft Excel and however, in general should be applicable to all.

Task / Objective Shortcut / Key Sequence
Jump to Cell A1 [Ctrl]+[Home]
Jump to the last cell in the worksheet that contains Data. [Ctrl]+[End]
Jump to Next Sheet (To the right of current sheet) [Ctrl]+[PgDn]
Jump to Previous Sheet (To the left of current sheet) [Ctrl]+[PgUp]
Go To a Cell [F5]
Toggle between open workbooks. More than one workbook (excel file) must be open Ctrl + TAB
Hide Column [Ctrl] + [0]
Unhide Column [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [0]
Hide Row [Ctrl] + [9]
Unhide Row [Ctrl] + [Shift + [9]
Show/Hide Chart [Ctrl] + [6]
Select Multiple Cells (Hold [Ctrl] key while clicking cell. You can click random cells in the worksheet.) [Ctrl] + [Click]
Select Range of Cells (Hold Shift Key while selecting cells to select a range) [Shift] + [Click] or [Shift] + {Arrow Keys}
Select current data block (cell containing data including and adjacent to current selection) [Ctrl] + [*] or [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [8]

I hope you found the information useful and Thank you for reading.

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