Hello All. Let’s look at commonly used excel shortcuts used for Windows. If you are looking for shortcuts used for MAC, please check here.
| Sl. No | Action | Shortcut |
| 1 | New Workbook | Ctrl + N |
| 2 | Open Workbook | Ctrl + O |
| 3 | Save Workbook | Ctrl + S |
| 4 | Save As Workbook | F12 |
| 5 | Ctrl + P | |
| 6 | Print Preview | Ctrl + F2 |
| 7 | Close Workbook | Ctrl + F4 |
| 8 | Close Excel (all open workbook) | Alt + F4 |
| 9 | Help | F1 |
| 10 | Redo | Ctrl + Y |
| 11 | Undo | Ctrl + Z |
| 12 | Copy selected cells | Ctrl + C |
| 13 | Cut selected cells | Ctrl + X |
| 14 | Paste | Ctrl + V |
| 15 | Paste Special | Ctrl + Alt + V |
| 16 | Find & Replace | Ctrl + F |
| 17 | Replace Selected | Ctrl + H |
| 18 | Select entire worksheet | Ctrl + A |
| 19 | Select one cell to the right | Shift + Right Arrow |
| 20 | Select one cell to the left | Shift + Left Arrow |
| 21 | Select one cell to the top | Shift + Up Arrow |
| 22 | Select one cell to the bottom | Shift + Down Arrow |
| 23 | Select till the last cell in the right | Ctrl + Shift + Right Arrow |
| 24 | Select till the last cell in the left | Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow |
| 25 | Select till the last cell in the top | Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow |
| 26 | Select till the last cell in the bottom | Ctrl + Shift + Down Arrow |
| 27 | Edit active cell | F2 |
| 28 | Insert comment | Shift + F2 |
| 29 | Apply or Remove Bold formatting | Ctrl + B |
| 30 | Apply or Remove Italic formatting | Ctrl + I |
| 31 | Apply or Remove underscoring | Ctrl + U |
| 32 | Calculate various formulas in worksheet | F9 |
| 33 | Next worksheet | Ctrl + Pg Dn |
| 34 | Previous worksheet | Ctrl + Pg Up |
| 35 | Spelling check | F7 |
I hope you like this short tutorial on the commonly used shortcut. If you don’t see the desired shortcut, check out advanced shortcuts for excel post.
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