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Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

Transform your Excel experience! Master essential keyboard shortcuts to navigate, edit, and audit your spreadsheets with lightning speed, boosting efficiency and reducing errors.

Created byDavid Ringstrom
4.9
(99 reviews)
IntermediateUpdated Nov 11, 2025
Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

What You'll Learn

check_circleMaster efficient navigation in Excel with keyboard shortcuts.
check_circleStreamline data entry and editing using quick key combinations.
check_circleAudit spreadsheets and manage column/row visibility with ease.
check_circleAccelerate filtering and custom feature access.
check_circleAutomate basic tasks using Excel's macro recorder.
check_circleUtilize shortcuts for saving, closing, and template access.

About This Course

Unlock the full power and efficiency of Microsoft Excel with "Excel Keyboard Shortcuts," a comprehensive course designed to transform your workflow.

Are you tired of repetitive mouse clicks slowing you down? This course addresses the "death by a thousand cuts" experience in Excel, where small inefficiencies accumulate to waste significant time and energy. By mastering keyboard shortcuts, you'll not only boost your productivity but also reduce fatigue and minimize errors, creating a seamless and efficient spreadsheet experience.

Here's what you'll learn:

  • Navigating and Selecting Data: Efficiently move around workbooks and worksheets, and select cell ranges with precision using intuitive keyboard commands.
  • Editing and Data Entry: Streamline copying, pasting, and filling data. Discover specialized paste options and master techniques for replicating data across cells and ranges.
  • Spreadsheet Auditing and Visibility: Toggle formulas, hide and unhide rows and columns effortlessly, and activate a full-screen view for expanded workspace.
  • Streamlining Filtering: Learn quick ways to filter data for rapid analysis, including powerful auto-filter options and clear filter shortcuts.
  • Refining Access to Excel Features: Customize your Quick Access Toolbar to create personal shortcuts for frequently used commands, even those without native shortcuts.
  • Automating Simple Tasks with Macros: Get a practical introduction to the macro recorder to automate repetitive actions and assign them to custom keyboard shortcuts.
  • Saving and Closing Files: Master efficient shortcuts for saving, closing, and exiting Excel, avoiding common pitfalls and saving precious time.

Designed for both Windows and Mac users (with specific considerations for platform differences), this course will equip you with a toolkit of essential shortcuts and strategies. Say goodbye to inefficient workflows and hello to a faster, smarter way to work in Excel!

Your Instructor

David Ringstrom
David Ringstrom

CPA, Author, Professional Excel Spreadsheet Trainer and Consultant

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David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is the author of Microsoft 365 Excel for Dummies, and a nationally recognized instructor who has taught over 2,500 live webinars. His Excel courses are based on over 30 years of consulting and teaching experience. David’s catchphrase is “Either you work Excel, or it works you,” so he focuses on what he sees users don’t, but should know about Microsoft Excel. His goal is to empower you to use Excel more effectively. David has authored or co-authored 10 books, including Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures, QuickBooks Online for Dummies, and Idiot's Guide to Introductory Accounting.

Credit Information

Do these courses count toward my professional development requirements?

This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.

If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.

What Students Are Saying

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