What are some basic Excel data selection and navigation shortcuts that use the keyboard and the mouse (hybrid shortcuts)?

Excel data selection and navigation skills are critical for becoming faster, especially if you’re an analyst working with exported data.  Once you learn the fundamentals there are dozens if not over a hundred useful navigation shortcut combinations.  If you manage a lot of files with large data sets, these shortcuts are absolutely indispensable and will save you a ton of time and help you keep your concentration.  Once you’ve mastered them you will fly around your spreadsheets like nobody’s bidness and probably impress your boss in the process.

In this post I will start simple, then quickly move up to more advanced tactics. [Read more…]