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Excel Alt Shortcuts

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What are Excel Alt shortcuts?

If you’ve ever seen someone use both hands all day long on the keyboard in Excel, chances are they were using Alt shortcuts or “keyboard accelerators.”  So what are they and how do they work?

If you hit the Alt key you’ll see the Ribbon and the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar – just below the Ribbon) light up with letters or numbers.  See below.

excel-alt-shortcuts-ribbon

These letters and numbers guide you through keystroke sequences that allow you do do virtually anything with your keyboard — instead of clicking with your mouse — as I’ll explain below. [Read more…]

Learn Excel Shortcuts — For Beginners

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Do you feel slow in Excel?  Do you want to learn Excel shortcuts but don’t know where to start?  Let’s go through some easy and useful keyboard shortcuts, plus some simple ways to commit them to memory.

If you’re a beginner in Excel, you probably use the Ribbon a lot, which is the area below.

Excel-Ribbon

While this gets the job done, there are faster ways.  But where should you start?

I will briefly walk through three Excel actions that (a) you probably perform regularly, and (b) have easy shortcuts.  These actions are: saving, cutting/copying/pasting and formatting fonts.

You can also take my free one-hour online video course.  It covers even more: Save, Copy, Paste, Cut, Undo, Redo, Bold, Italics, Underline, Find and Replace. [Read more…]