Comments on: Ditch the mouse

By: Darren Miller

Darren Miller — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:30:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing these shortcuts Divya. I didn’t know of the Ctrl+/ shortcut for row differences – great tip, as checking rows for differences is something I do a lot of. It made me wonder whether there is a similar shortcut for finding column differences. Searching the interweb did not reveal anything, so I played around in Excel and discovered that Ctrl+| does this – so now I can check my rows AND columns for consistency.

On another note, it is funny how you get used to doing things a certain way. I always define new range names via Alt I N D (4 separate keys) whereas Ctrl F3 does the same thing in 2 (in combo). However, I find myself doing this the long way round and wasting valuable milliseconds.

By: Divya Gaur

Divya Gaur — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:48:42 +0000

I can share few of them which I personally use -

For Tracing / Auditing-
1)Trace Arrows Alt T U, followed by:
For Precedents T
For Dependants D
For Erase Arrows A
For Highlight Preced. F2

2)Row Difference Ctrl + \ , then shade

3)Quick Graph Select range, F11

For Moving Around-
1)Up / Down Sheets PgUp / PgDn

2)Between Sheets Ctrl + PgUp / PgDn

For Editing-
1)Copy Ctrl + C

2)Paste Enter or Ctrl + V

3)Paste Special Alt E S, followed by:
For Formats T
For Formulas F
For Values V

4)Undo Ctrl + Z

5)Repeat F4 or Ctrl + Y

6)Sum above Alt + =

Regards,
Divya Gaur

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:24:18 +0000

P.S. I dig the new blog/website design!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:23:31 +0000

Alt ‘ in Excel 2003 to change styles. This shortcut is sorely missed in 2007/2010, and I find myself using Ctrl 1 more often than I should to change the style to Percent, Currency, etc because it’s faster than Alt + H + J + arrow keys to desired style.
F2 of course although I find myself hitting F1 5% of the time. Nothing a little VBA can’t fix!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:16:15 +0000

Guess I’m just a novice