Recently we’ve run so many Microsoft Excel training courses Worcestershire courses, with great feedback on especially the Excel shortcuts; we thought it would be helpful to remind you of some of the key “time savers” in Excel. Most of these are applicable to all versions but some which are pertinent to a particular version are mentioned.

These Excel shortcuts range from the obvious to more obscure!

10 Excel Shortcuts

1. Fill Copy Button (little black square in bottom right of a cell) has two main purposes.
   • Create a data series or 1,2,3,4 or a custom list series Jan, Feb, Mar
   • Copy a formula relative to the place you are copying it into
2. Whenever sorting, subtotalling or filtering always have row 1 as your headers (fields) and rows 2 onwards for detail data with no blank rows or columns. Before activating the command choose an active cell in your list not an empty cell.
3. Holding Control button then pressing the Strange button (the button with 3 strange characters under Esc key) will show all your formulas. Repeat to revert back.
4. Select Data then F11 (Create a chart Sheet) – everyone’s all-time favourite
5. Using Slicers to filter in Pivot Tables (Excel 2010, 2013, 2016 only)
6. Group Sheet Selection (using shift key) selects all sheets to negate the need for multiple copy paste activities
7. Accounting number button in middle of the Home ribbon (quicker than right click Format Cells)
8. Freeze panes – will hold rows and columns in place whilst scrolling. Select a cell then VIEW Freeze Panes will freeze both a row and column.
9. New Quick Analysis button (Excel 2013) allows you to chart, conditionally format or create totals close to the action.
10. Evaluate Formula in Formulas Tab allows for tracing through a complex set of arithmetic operations in Excel orders of precedence.

We cover all these features and many more in our Excel courses which range from Basic Excel to Master Class Excel. As well covering Excel shortcuts, we also cover lots of aspects of the Excel package to help build on your existing knowledge or to help you learn features you did not know about before!

Full details of courses are on our Microsoft Excel Training page.

To have a look at one of our sample Excel agendas, please click here – this agenda is for our Intermediate Excel course.

If you would like to ask us about helping you or your staff improve on their Excel knowledge, then please get in touch via our Contact Page. If you’re interested in Microsoft Excel training courses Worcestershire then get in touch now.

You might also find our recent post on Excel Navigation short cuts useful.

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This hint and tip is all about optimising your time in navigating Excel!

As Excel is used more and more in business for both storing rows and rows of list data and also for controlling company systems, its really important to optimise your time in navigating your way around a worksheet.

At JPL IT Training Limited, we know how important optimising time is and so to this end we’ve put together a few shortcuts, hints and tips which may help.

Short Cut or Action…        …What is does

Cell in A1. Control+Shift+End – Selects the whole worksheet for every active cell

Cell in last active cell in worksheet. Control+Shift+Home – Selects the whole worksheet for every active cell

Cell in top active cell in a column. Control+Shift+down arrow – Selects all active cells in a column

Control+Page Up or Control+Page Down – Tab between active worksheets

Select first active sheet, hold down Shift button, select last Active sheet – Puts those sheets and in-between into Group active selection mode

Select a column. View Tab, Freeze Pane – Freezes all columns to the left of selected column

Select a cell. View Tab, Freeze Pane – Freezes all rows above and columns to the left of selected cell

Right Click on a column heading, Hide column – Hides that column temporarily

As there are literally hundreds of command keys in Excel and not all on the main ribbons, it is good practice to create your own shortcut Tabs and Ribbons.

To do this, right click on any existing ribbon and choose customise a ribbon. You can then create a number of custom groups and rename them under your new ribbon and drag favoured commands in to them.

We cover these features and more on our Basic Excel training course but there are many others features and commands covered in our other Excel courses ranging from Intermediate to Master Class.

The key content for our Excel courses can be found here. Take a look at some customer comments who have found these course and tips useful!

For further details on Excel navigation or other areas of the package, please email us on johnlegge@jplcomputer.co.uk

Why not take a look at our previous post on differences between Word, Excel and Outlook?

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