Faster At Excel Now!
By Paul Terpeluk
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Faster At Excel Now! 1 FasterAtExcel.com Table Of Contents INTRODUCTION ...... 2 MEMORIZING SHORTCUTS...... 3 NOMENCLATURE ...... 3 SHORTCUT: SAVE DOCUMENT ...... 3 SHORTCUTS: CUT, COPY AND PASTE...... 4 SHORTCUTS: FORMATTING ...... 5 FEATURE: QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR ...... 9 SHORTCUTS: UNDO & REDO ...... 10 SHORTCUTS: PASTE SPECIAL ...... 10 SHORTCUT: TOGGLE WINDOWS ...... 13 SHORTCUT: AUTOSUM ...... 13 FEATURE: STATUS BAR ...... 13 FEATURE: FILTER ...... 14 SHORTCUTS: ALT- SEQUENCES ...... 16 SHORTCUTS: DELETE AND INSERT ...... 17 SHORTCUTS: NAVIGATION ...... 18 FEATURE: MENU KEY ...... 19 MAKING IT HAPPEN ...... 20 APPENDIX: LIST OF SHORTCUTS & FEATURES ...... 21
INTRODUCTION In this report I’ll review 30+ vital Excel shortcuts (including 11 examples of very fast, yet little-known, “hybrid” shortcuts), 4 time-saving features, and numerous other tricks that can make you faster at Excel – without learning VBA or giving up your mouse. This will keep you reasonably within your comfort zone, but at the same time you MUST be willing to learn new habits or you’ll never become faster. Inertia is your enemy, and if you’re not willing to stretch yourself a little, you might as well give up now. In reality, these shortcuts and features are not really that hard, and once you see the convenience and time-saving value of a few, you’ll want more – just like a bag of great potato chips.
Many of the shortcuts have clusters of other related shortcuts that I won’t have the space to cover here. The same with some of the features – I’ll only be able to skim the surface. I go into greater depth regarding the shortcuts in my 122-page book, Excel Shortcut System, which covers over 200 of them (and for a limited time
Faster At Excel Now! 2 FasterAtExcel.com only includes some great bonus material, including my Shortcut Wizard which is a sorting and ranking tool for all 200 shortcuts).
MEMORIZING SHORTCUTS To memorize shortcuts I recommend tackling one to three new ones per week using these three techniques:
1. Write the shortcuts on a Post-It note and stick it to the bottom of your monitor (for “brain memory”) 2. If necessary, come up with a mnemonic (e.g., Ctrl-X is for Cut because the “X” looks like scissors) (for “brain memory”) 3. Practice each shortcut for five minutes straight before using it that day (for “brain memory” and “muscle memory”)
NOMENCLATURE I will put each shortcut (and other key tips) in bold. When I say “RC” I mean Right-Click the mouse. In parentheses I’ll say whether the shortcut is a “keyboard” shortcut, a “mouse” shortcut or a “hybrid” shortcut which involves both the keyboard and the mouse. If I say “
SHORTCUT: SAVE DOCUMENT Here’s a shortcut you can use many times daily: saving a document
Save (keyboard): Ctrl-S
It’s that simple. Typing Ctrl-S is the same as using the mouse to go to File > Save. However, Ctrl-S is much faster and less disruptive. Think about the steps involved in using File > Save:
1. Move the mouse to the File tab 2. Click on the File tab 3. Move the mouse down to Save 4. Click Save 5. Move the mouse back to the cells
That’s five annoying steps.
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And it’s easy to remember: S is for “Save.” And you can do it with your left hand while your right had remains comfortably on the mouse. Forget about File > Save!
For all Ctrl- keyboard shortcuts, you must have both the Ctrl key and the second key pressed simultaneously. For Ctrl-S I put my pinky on the Ctrl key and my middle finger on the S key. Depending on your keyboard, your hand size and your personal preferences, you may do it differently. When committing shortcuts like this to memory, you need to commit it to (a) “brain memory” (remember what the shortcut is) and (b) “muscle memory” (have your fingers remember how to do it without looking).
Now that you have a fast way to save your files, you can indulge your paranoia and type Ctrl-S every few minutes, or whenever there’s a lull in the action, so you don’t have to rely on AutoSave.
Note: this “Excel shortcut” is actually a fairly universal one for saving documents — both within and beyond the Microsoft Office suite.
SHORTCUTS: CUT, COPY AND PASTE Now on to some other high frequency tasks with easy shortcuts: Cut, Copy and Paste.
Cut (keyboard): Ctrl-X
Copy (keyboard): Ctrl-C
Paste (keyboard): Ctrl-V
While Excel didn’t make these shortcuts easy to remember by having the letters stand for anything (except maybe the “C” which stands for “Copy), they are easy for the left hand to execute. The best mnemonic I’ve come up with for Cut is that “X” stands for Cut because the “X” looks like a pair of scissors you would cut with. I don’t have a good one for “V”.
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These “Excel shortcuts” are virtually universal as well — not specific to Excel or Microsoft. And they work across programs. For example, you could copy something from Word into Excel using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. Or you could copy a URL from Chrome into Word. Or you could copy an email address from Outlook or Gmail (or other email program) into Word, Excel, Outlook, Gmail, etc. In other words, these “Excel shortcuts” can save you time way beyond Excel. They are indispensable for becoming faster at computer work in general.
SHORTCUTS: FORMATTING Now let’s turn to something else you probably do a lot: Formatting (see my Excel Formatting Shortcuts blog post here).
Below are three common formats with easy keyboard shortcuts. I’m providing two shortcuts for each format - - one that’s easier to remember (because uses letters that make sense), and one that’s faster because it doesn’t pull in your right hand.
Bold (keyboard): Ctrl-2 (or Ctrl-B) — both methods are easy (fast) to pull off with the left hand (unless you have short fingers), though Ctrl-B is easier to remember (B is for Bold)
Italics (keyboard): Ctrl-3 (or Ctrl-I) — here, Ctrl-I is easier to remember (I is for Italics), but unlike Ctrl-3 it requires two hands (the “correct” hand to type the letter “I” is the right hand)
Underline (keyboard): Ctrl-4 (or Ctrl-U) — here, Ctrl-U is easier to remember (U is for Underline), but unlike Ctrl-4 it requires two hands
(Note: typing the keyboard shortcut a second time will reverse the formatting — e.g., if you type Ctrl-2 to get Bold, then typing Ctrl-2 again will remove the Bold).
A shortcut is useless if you can’t memorize it. And so you may be tempted to stick with Ctrl-B/I/U as a group since it’s easier to remember. However, given that Ctrl-2/3/4 is faster (unless you have short fingers), I
Faster At Excel Now! 5 FasterAtExcel.com recommend you find a way to memorize it. For example, you could use a mnemonic: 2/3/4 = B/I/U. B/I/U is arranged alphabetically, and also in order of increasing letters in the word (“bold” has the fewest letters while “underline” has the most), and it also sounds like BYU (as in the university). As silly as it sounds, you can augment your mnemonic by just practicing the shortcuts for five minutes. For example, find a cell with some characters in it and then type Ctrl-2, Ctrl-2, Ctrl-3, Ctrl-3, Ctrl-4, Ctrl-4 to see the formats appear and disappear. Just find something that works for you.
On the subject of formats, you probably use more than just good old Bold, Italics and Underline (BIU). And you’re probably familiar with the Format Cells dialog box below:
From this box you can access virtually any formatting. And you can bring it up quickly with one of the following two shortcuts:
Format Cells Dialog Box (hybrid): RC-F (or Right-Click-F)
This shortcut is what I call a “hybrid” shortcut because it combines mouse and keyboard action into one shortcut sequence (see my Hybrid Shortcuts blog post here). It works because when you right click (assuming you have nothing in your clipboard) the drop-down menu includes an option for Format Cells. The underline means the underlined letter is the shortcut key to execute that action. See below where “F” is underlined for “Format Cells…”.
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This is a great example of how you can use little-discussed “hybrid” shortcuts to save time.
One complication arises when two different shortcuts share the same key (why Excel allows this to happen, I don’t know). In this case you have to hit Enter after typing the letter (which destroys the speed of the shortcut and means you’re probably better off completing the menu selection with your mouse).
I will cover seven more hybrid shortcuts in this report.
Here’s the second shortcut method of pulling up the Format Cells dialog box. It’s a little slower, and a tiny bit tricky for the left hand (try using your thumb instead of your pinky for the Ctrl key), but you may like it:
Format Cells Dialog Box (keyboard): Ctrl-1
Sometimes you just want to copy the formatting from an existing cell or range onto another cell or range. There are two easy ways to do this:
Copy & Paste Formats (mouse): Click on Format Painter, then the cell(s) whose format you want to copy, then the cell(s) onto which you want to copy the format.
If you want to copy on to multiple cells/ranges, double click on the Format Painter first, then paint the cell(s). When done, hit ESC. See the Format Painter icon below:
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There’s another way to “paint formats” using a hybrid method that employs the Paste Special menu:
Copy & Paste Formats (hybrid): Ctrl-C on cell(s) whose format you want to copy, then RC-R on the cells you want to “paint”
Look below to see the menu you get when right clicking while something’s in your clipboard (right after you copy something):
Notice that when you hover over the icons Excel tells you the shortcut key – in this case “R” for Formatting. Since nothing else uses that letter, it will work fine. To repeat the painting (and thus mimic what you do after you double click the Format Painter to paint multiple sections), just hit F4 to repeat the action.
Faster At Excel Now! 8 FasterAtExcel.com FEATURE: QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR If you have certain formats that you use a lot but for which there’s no easy shortcut, you can put them on your QAT or Quick Access Toolbar (see my QAT post here). This is the skinny toolbar that by default sits above the Ribbon – but that I move to below the Ribbon for easier access – see below:
You’ll notice that, while I use Bold, Italics and Underline a lot, I don’t have them on the QAT. Why? Because I already have Ctrl-2/3/4 or B/I/U. If I change cell colors and font colors a lot, I can put those on the QAT (as I’ve done above). This way they’re within easy reach no matter which Ribbon tab I’m on.
But another benefit of putting them on the QAT is that you give yourself the option of basically creating your own new customized keyboard shortcuts. If you hit the Alt key you’ll see the Ribbon and the QAT light up with keyboard shortcuts:
The ones on the left of the QAT are fairly easy to type in with your left hand – e.g., Alt-1 for Commas. I like to have my numbers formatted with commas but no decimals, and the fastest way I’ve found is to place the Comma and Decrease Decimal icons in the number 1 and number 2 positions so I can just type Alt-1-2-2 to (1) add the Comma formatting (which also puts in two decimals) by typing “1” and then (2) remove the two decimals by typing “2” twice.
Format With Comma And No Decimals (keyboard) (assumes the #1 and #2 QAT set-up above): Alt-1-2-2
Unlike with the Ctrl- shortcuts, Alt shortcuts don’t require you to keep the key depressed (though you can if you want). For example, to use Comma formatting you can hit Alt-1 (press Alt and then, while keeping it down, type “1” – the same way you would type Ctrl-1 for the Format Cells dialog box) – or you can let go of Alt before you type “1” (using the QAT in the illustration above). In my number formatting example (comma and no decimals) I can go faster by keeping the Alt key depressed, as this saves me from re-typing Alt for each shortcut – meaning I type Alt-1-2-2 instead of Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-2.
Faster At Excel Now! 9 FasterAtExcel.com Depending on the keyboard you might be able to type Alt-1 through Alt-6 without lifting your left hand, meaning the 1 though 6 positions on the QAT are prime real estate for creating your own shortcuts. I recommend that you reserve these slots for tasks you will use frequently and that have no better shortcut alternatives.
If you have a short-term project with intensive usage of a certain Excel task – say, formatting text red – you may want to place the shortcut for this command on the far left on a temporary basis. When the project is done, you can move it back to its “normal” position. Don’t be afraid to modify the QAT as needed to save you time. It’s fast and easy.
SHORTCUTS: UNDO & REDO Moving on, say you made a mistake and want to correct it with Undo. Rather than use the mouse, try this easy keyboard shortcut:
Undo (keyboard): Ctrl-Z
Now say you undid the “mistake” and realized it wasn’t a mistake after all and need to re-do the action. Here’s a Redo keyboard shortcut:
Redo (keyboard): Ctrl-Y
This shortcut involves the right hand, but if you’re toggling back and forth it’s actually faster to volley back and forth between the right and left hand (vs. just using your left hand). I often toggle Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Y to toggle before and after scenarios and have found this method to be very quick once the right hand is on the keyboard. You could also Redo using F4 but I’ve found that to be a little bit of a reach for the right hand. You may feel differently.
SHORTCUTS: PASTE SPECIAL Now let’s return to one of our first shortcut areas – pasting (see my Paste Special blog post here). Sometimes a basic paste won’t work. Basic paste will include the formulas and formatting, which you may not want. Say you just want to paste the values of what’s in the cells, or just the formatting. Well, we got a little ahead of ourselves with the paste Formatting shortcut, which is RC-R. So here’s the Paste Values shortcut:
Paste Values (hybrid): RC-V
See below where Excel tells you that “V” is the shortcut for Values.
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You can also paste a picture of a group of cells – something that comes in handy for emails (vs. pasting an ugly, unwieldy table). Pasting a picture requires you to go one level deeper in the RC menu – into a sub-menu -- since Picture isn’t one of the Paste Options immediately after you right click. Below is the menu level you need to go to by hovering over the “Paste Special” line, the moving your cursor down to the Picture icon. A good shortcut to get to this sub-menu is as follows:
Paste Special Sub-Menu (hybrid): RC-S
Typing “S” works because “S” is underlined in “Paste Special…”, meaning it’s the shortcut key for that option.
Faster At Excel Now! 11 FasterAtExcel.com You can see there are other options here as well that don’t appear in the Paste Options line. I occasionally use Keep Source Column Widths (W) and Values & Number Formatting (A), and their shortcuts are as follows:
Paste Column Widths (hybrid): RC-S-W
Paste Values & Number Formatting(hybrid): RC-S-A
I like pasting Pictures a lot (into emails), but unfortunately typing U requires the right hand. So rather than do that, I simply click on the Picture (U) menu option. Thus my full shortcut for pasting pictures is kind of a “sandwich hybrid” shortcut – beginning and ending with the mouse, but with keyboard action in the middle:
Paste Picture (hybrid): RC-S-
There’s yet another level to the paste menu which you access by clicking on the “Paste Special…” line (vs. just hovering over it). A good shortcut is as follows:
Paste Special Pop-Up Menu (hybrid): RC-S-S
Doing so brings up the Paste Special pop-up menu below. The main addition here is the “Operation” section which allows you to add, subtract, multiply or divide your target cell(s) by the value you just copied.
So if you copy -1 (negative one), then select a column of numbers, and then choose Paste: Values and Operation: Multiply, you’ll change the sign of every number in that column. You could also multiply by 2, and so on.
Multiply Cell(s) by 2 (mouse): Copy cell with “2” in it, select target cells, then Paste: Values and Operation: Multiply using the Paste Special pop-up menu
Faster At Excel Now! 12 FasterAtExcel.com One nice trick is the ability to use this pop-up menu to convert numbers to text. Simply copy a blank cell (which Excel reads as a zero), then Pate: Values, Operation: Add. Voila – you now have numbers instead of text.
Convert Text to Numbers (mouse): Copy blank cell, select target cells, then Paste: Values and Operation: Add
Note: there’s another quick way to convert text to numbers but has a major drawback that you should be aware of. To the right you see the option Excel provides to convert text to numbers by simply clicking on a little menu that appears when it sees numbers stored as text. While this works fine with a small range, do NOT do it for a big range or you may get the blue donut of death as Excel tries to process your command.
SHORTCUT: TOGGLE WINDOWS Sometimes you want to toggle back and forth between two spreadsheets or between Excel and Outlook. To go quickly between your current window and the one you were in just prior use the following shortcut:
Toggle Between Current and Previous Window (keyboard): Alt-Tab
SHORTCUT: AUTOSUM Now let’s turn briefly to formulas.
The most common formula is SUM, and there’s a great shortcut for something called AutoSum:
AutoSum (keyboard): Alt-=
AutoSum automatically sums the data above or to the left of it. Yes, this is one of my rare two-handed shortcuts, but I find it’s faster than the mouse. If you use AutoSum a lot, you could always put the AutoSum icon on the left side of your QAT and use the Alt- shortcut – e.g., Alt-3.
FEATURE: STATUS BAR Sometimes you’re moving too fast to want to use AutoSum and you don’t need to add a formula to the file. Luckily there’s an even faster way to check a sum. On the bottom of Excel there’s a grey bar called the “status bar” which has, on the right side, the ability to show the sum of selected cells. If you have a small range of Faster At Excel Now! 13 FasterAtExcel.com cells whose sum you want to know, just highlight them and the sum should show up on the right of the status bar somewhere – see below for an example (which also has Max, Min, Numerical Count, Count and Average). Here the sum of the selected cells is 3488, circled in green. If your status bar doesn’t have Sum, you can easily add it. Just right click on the status bar and add whatever you want.
You could do the same for a whole column or row as well – just highlight the whole column and see what the status bar tells you.
Get a Quick Sum (mouse): select cells and look at “Sum” on status bar
FEATURE: FILTER Sometimes you have a column of data and need to know if a certain value appears in that column. You could search for it by highlighting the column and using Ctrl-F (Find), but that would be tedious if you had to do it numerous times in multiple. In addition, this technique would not let you view all instances of the record. Say you wanted to search for Philadelphia. To see each instance of Philadelphia in the column you’d have to keep hitting Enter after finding each instance using Ctrl-F.
Luckily there’s a much faster way using a very powerful and useful feature called Filter. To use Filter, simply select a cell inside a range and hit the Filter icon below. This is where it is on the Data tab:
Above, you can see I also have it on my QAT (circled in green), where I’ve effectively created a shortcut for it – Alt-3.
Faster At Excel Now! 14 FasterAtExcel.com And here is where it is on the far right side of the Home tab:
Here’s the standard keyboard shortcut:
Filter (keyboard): Alt-A-T
If you’ve applied a bunch of filters and want to start fresh, you can either type Alt-A-T twice (to turn filters off and on again), or use the following shortcut:
Clear Filter (keyboard): Alt-A-C
While this is a lot of keys, they’re all conveniently located. You’ll have to decide what’s comfortable for you and your hand.
Once you activate the filter you’ll see the drop-down arrows in each header cell. Below I’ve clicked on the Town/City header to search for Philadelphia. You can see that as I type in the search box, the list dynamically shrinks to show only those values that contain the string I’m entering – in this case “Phi.” It turns out that two different values contain that string – Memphis and Philadelphia – but I’ve been able to confirm that Philadelphia does show up in that column.
If I wanted to see every instance of Philadelphia I just select Philadelphia alone (or keep typing until Memphis disappears). Then I can examine each record with Philadelphia in it.
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Filter works best when there are no columns with blank headers, and no blank rows. The best practice is to have your headers bolded and on the top row. This helps Excel know how to filter properly. I also like to Freeze Panes so the header row remains on the top row even when I scroll down.
There are loads of other things you can do with Filter, but that’s it for now. If you work with data a lot, I highly recommend that you learn this feature in depth.
SHORTCUTS: ALT- SEQUENCES Since we just covered a few Alt- shortcuts, let’s briefly explain the logic behind them (see my Alt Shortcuts blog post here). If you truly want to go mouse-free, you must learn the Alt- system. Basically, by hitting Alt, you activate a comprehensive keyboard-driven shortcut system that allows you to drill down to every action on the ribbon (and QAT). This means everything on the Ribbon (and QAT) has a keyboard shortcut – even though there are faster shortcuts for many of the high frequency items (which we are reviewing in this book).
Below is what appears when you hit Alt. Here, you must type a letter to choose the tab you want to go to – e.g., “A” for Data.
Faster At Excel Now! 16 FasterAtExcel.com Once you type “A” for Data, you’re taken to the Data tab where you now see the next level and corresponding set of letter shortcuts. You can now see where the Alt-A-T comes from to activate the Filter. Below, “T” is for filter:
So typing Alt-A-T takes you first to the Data tab, then selects Filter once you’re on that tab. So if you ever end up in a mouse-less emergency, this is the way to go.
Note: Many of Excel’s “legacy” Alt- sequences remain from before the Ribbon was added. Some of the easier and more popular ones include:
Paste Special Pop-Up (keyboard): Alt-E-S (vs. RC-S-S)
Replace (keyboard): Alt-E-E (vs. Ctrl-H)
The extent to which you embrace this Alt methodology depends on several things:
1. To what extent are you willing to abandon your mouse and keep your right hand on the keyboard? (Do you want to go all in, or just cherry pick the high-frequency Alt- shortcuts that can be executed by the left hand, including those on your QAT?) 2. How many Alt- sequences are you prepared to memorize? 3. For those you don’t plan to memorize, how much time will you save by using them instead of the mouse?
SHORTCUTS: DELETE AND INSERT Sometimes you want to delete or insert a row or column. Here are a few shortcuts:
Delete Row, Column or Cell (hybrid): RC-D (keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-- (Ctrl followed by “-“)
Insert Copied Row or Column (hybrid): RC-E (after you’ve copied what you’re going to insert)
If you just want to insert a new row or column (not one that you’ve copied) the shortcut is a more of a stretch for the left hand:
Insert Row or Column (hybrid): RC-I (with nothing copied / on the clipboard) (keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-+)
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SHORTCUTS: NAVIGATION Let’s close with a few navigation shortcuts (see my basic Selection & Navigation Shortcuts post here). This is a potentially massive subject (which I’ll deal with in detail in my upcoming larger book and video course). However, let’s quickly go through a few, knowing that we’re leaving out some of the caveats, best practices, etc.
Sometimes you’re off in outer space in cell BX:23,204 and you just want to get back to the upper left. Here’s an indispensable shortcut to take you to cell A1 (or the cell just below it if you’re using Freeze Panes):
Go to Cell A1 (keyboard): Ctrl-Home
In the opposite direction, here’s how you go to the “last” cell in a spreadsheet. Technically this takes you to the last “used” cell, which may be blank at the moment but at some point in the past had something in it or had something done to it.
Go to Last Used Cell (keyboard): Ctrl-End
To select everything between where you are and A1 or the last used cell, simply hit the Shift key in the middle:
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Here’s a shortcut for selecting an entire range regardless where you are in that range. Beware of blank rows or columns.
Select an Entire Range (keyboard): Ctrl-A
FEATURE: MENU KEY Navigating a big spreadsheet is one time when you may have your right hand on the keyboard a lot. In this case, be aware of one key that can be a good friend: the Menu Key (see my brief Menu Key post here). The menu key, pictured below, basically does the same thing as RC. But since your hand is already on the keyboard, you can RC without leaving the keyboard. It’s typically on the bottom right of the keyboard, but unfortunately some keyboards are missing this useful key.
Faster At Excel Now! 19 FasterAtExcel.com MAKING IT HAPPEN For your reference, on the next (and final) page is a list of all the shortcuts and features covered in this book. Here’s a recommended action plan:
1. Print the list. 2. Cross off any shortcuts you doubt you’ll use or seem too hard to remember. 3. Rank the remaining ones by order of potential usage frequency to make a priority list. 4. Pin the list to a wall or cabinet where you can quickly glance at it. 5. Create your first Post-It with your #1 ranked shortcut on it and stick it to your monitor. 6. When you’ve mastered it, cross it off the full list and throw out the Post-It. 7. Create another Post-It with two shortcuts on it, or with a cluster of three related ones (such as Ctrl- C/X/V for Copy, Cut and Paste). Be flexible with your rankings if necessary. 8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 until you’ve mastered all the shortcuts you didn’t cross off. 9. At that point, reconsider tackling the remaining shortcuts.
If you memorize two per week, you can memorize them all in approximately three months.
As for the features, you can take the same approach as the shortcuts or simply wait until your work will really benefit from the feature. Then, despite how slow it may seem at first, really put that feature to work and test the engine, so to speak. See what that baby can deliver. You will probably be amazed at how much faster it makes you. Then move onto the rest.
Remember: inertia is your enemy. You must be willing to break old habits and form new ones.
Good luck becoming Faster At Excel, and I hope I was able to help and left you better off than when you started. Please contact me with any thoughts whatsoever at [email protected]
Thanks.
Paul
P.S. Don’t forget my 122-page book, Excel Shortcut System, which takes you to the warp speed level by covering over 200 shortcuts. For a limited time only it includes some great bonus material, including my Shortcut Wizard which is a sorting and ranking tool for all 200 shortcuts.
Faster At Excel Now! 20 FasterAtExcel.com APPENDIX: LIST OF SHORTCUTS & FEATURES
Shortcut Command 1 Ctrl-S Save 2 Ctrl-C Copy 3 Ctrl-X Cut 4 Ctrl-V Paste 5 Ctrl-2 (or Ctrl-B) Bold 6 Ctrl-3 (or Ctrl-I) Italics 7 Ctrl-4 (or Ctrl-U) Underline 8 RC-R (or Format Painter) Paste Formatting 9 RC-F Format Cells 10 Ctrl-Z Undo 11 Ctrl-Y Redo 12 RC-V Paste Values 13 Alt-Tab Toggle Windows 14 Alt-= AutoSum 15 Alt-A-T Filter 16 Alt-A-C Clear Filters 17 RC-S Paste Special Sub-Menu 18 RC-S-S (or Alt-E-S) Paste Special Pop-Up Menu 19 RC-S-W Paste Column Widths 20 RC-S-A Paste Values & Number Format 21 RC-S-
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