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Excel Chart Shortcuts: Hybrid Mutants

September 8, 2016 by terp Leave a Comment

Hybrid Excel Chart Shortcuts: How To Format, Select Data and Modify Fonts

When you right click on a Chart (or in any other context), you typically get a “context menu” that looks something like the ones further down the screen.  Context menus give you a sort of hidden shortcut option I call “hybrid” shortcuts.  They work by simply typing the underlined hot key for a menu option — rather than clicking on it.

I call these shortcuts “hybrid” shortcuts because they’re part keyboard shortcut, part mouse shortcut.  If they were animals, they might be half-man, half-beast.  Kind of like the mutants below.

excel-hybrid-pivot-shortcut-images

My favorite hybrid shortcuts involve virtually no extra motion from my hands.  My left hand stays on the left side of the keyboard and my right hand stays on the mouse.  Call me lazy.

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Filed Under: Charts, Excel Shortcuts, Font, Formatting, Hybrid shortcuts Tagged With: Charts, Excel Mouse Shortcuts, Excel Shortcuts, Font, format, Hybrid Shortcuts

Learn Excel Shortcuts — For Beginners

September 14, 2015 by terp Leave a Comment

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…]

Filed Under: Cut Copy Paste, Excel Shortcuts, Formatting, Keyboard Shortcuts, Save Tagged With: cut copy paste, Excel Keyboard Shortcuts, Excel Shortcuts, format, Formatting, save

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