Commonly used Excel Shortcuts for Windows

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	Print	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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