Microsoft Excel shortcuts

by Qianyu Hang

started 2018/1/6 and updated 2018-12-26


Intro

Recently, I am using Microsoft Excel to work on data analysis. I will recommend some powerful and useful shortcuts i know to you guys. All right, let’s get the ball rolling.

Shortcuts

Extend selection - Control + Shift + arrow keys

Fill down - Control + D to copy values from the cell above without copy paste

Autosum - Alt + =

Go to first cell/last cell - Control + Home / Control + End

Data navigation - Control + arrow keys

Fill handle - Double click the little square at the bottom right of any selection

New table - Control + T

Close the new window - Control + W to close the dumplicate view of excel file

Select non-adjacent data for a plot/chart - Shift + F8