Shortcuts make the work on MS Excel a lot easier. You may have noticed, as you shuffle lesser between mouse and keyboard, your speed of work grows manifold. Navigation within a sheet or between different worksheets, Excel files and other applications is a part of our daily working and so the navigation keys have a huge role to play in optimizing our efficiency. In the table we have highlighted 5 very important navigation shortcuts.
Let’s go through these shortcuts in brief and understand with the help of examples.
1. ALT + Tab / Windows Logo + Tab – This shortcut allows switching between different open applications on your system. Kindly note that Windows logo can be used for switching only in Windows 7 and above.
2. CTRL + Tab – With few clicks you can navigate between the multiple open excel files using this shortcut.
3. CTRL + Page up/Page Down – Similarly you can easily move between different sheets of the same workbook through this shortcut.
4. Ctrl + Arrow keys – This shortcut allows you to go to the next filled cell/last cell in the row or column. With just the arrow keys & CTRL, you can navigate across the entire worksheet that has over 16,000 columns and a million rows, as shown below.
The following video explains all the above shortcuts
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