Excel Keyboard Shortcut Keys

1. To format any selected object, press ctrl+1

2. To insert current date, press ctrl+; 3. To insert current time, press ctrl+shift+;

4. To repeat last action, press F4

5. To edit a cell comment, press shift + F2

6. To autosum selected cells, press alt + =

7. To see the suggest drop-down in a cell, press alt + down arrow 8. To enter multiple lines in a cell, press alt+enter 9. To insert a new sheet, press shift + F11 10. To edit active cell, press F2 (places cursor in the end)

11. To hide current row, press ctrl+9

12. To hide current column, press ctrl+0 13. To unhide rows in selected range, press ctrl+shift+9

14. To unhide columns in selected range, press ctrl+shift+0

15. To recalculate formulas, press F9

16. To select data in current region, press ctrl+shift+8 17. To see formulas in the worksheet, press ctrl+shift+` (ctrl+~) 18. While editing formulas to change the reference type from absolute to

relative vice versa, press F4

19. To format a number as currency, press ctrl+shift+4 (ctrl+$)

20. To apply outline border around selected cells, press ctrl+shift+7

21. To open the macros dialog box, press alt+F8

22. To copy value from above cell, press ctrl+

23. To format current cell with comma formats, press ctrl+shift+1 24. To go to the next worksheet, press ctrl+shift+pg down

25. To go to the previous worksheet, press ctrl+shift+pg upExcel Formulas

1. SUMFormula: =SUM (6,6) or

=SUM (A1, B1) or

=SUM (A1:B5)

The SUM formula helps us to add 2 or more numbers together.

You can have different numbers there by separated by commas, it will add them together, you can also have cell references and you have to add numbers in these cells and they will add them together , or you can also have a range of cells separated by a colon in between the cells, and it will add the numbers.

2. COUNTFormula:=COUNT (A1:A10)

The count formula counts the number of cells in a range that have numbers in them.

3. COUNTAFormula:=COUNTA (A1:A10)

It even helps to count all the numbers of non-empty cells in a particular range. It will count that if cells have numbers or any other characters involved in them.

The COUNTA Formula works with all data types.

4. LEN:Formula: =LEN (A1)

The LEN formula helps us to count all the number of characters in a give range of cells. This sometimesalso includes spaces.

Note:

10 characters, that without spaces, in between the words, where as 12 characters with spaces between the words.

5. TRIMFormula: =TRIM (A1)

We will find this formula to be more usefulwhen we run into situations, where you pull data from a database. When wetry comparing it either using IF statement or else VLOOKUPs.

6. RIGHT, LEFT, MIDFormulas: = RIGHT(text, number of characters), =LEFT(text, number of characters), =MID(text, start number, number of characters).

The formula which we used here returns the specified number of characters as mentioned from a given text string.

Note: RIGHT gives us the number of characters that are from the right of the text string.

LEFT gives us the number of characters that are from the left.

And MID gives us the required number of characters from the middle

7. VLOOKUPFormula: =VLOOKUP (lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, range_lookup)

It First Looks up for a value which is in the leftmost column in table, and then returns the value which is in the same row,from that of a column we specify.

Note: If at all possible we use any number for the lookup value. it makes it more and more easier to make sure that the data that which you are getting back would be a correct match.

8. IF StatementsFormula: =IF(logical_statement, return this if logical statement is true, return this if logical statement is false)

Example:

=IF(C3>D3, Met Quota, Did Not Meet Quota)

9. SUMIF, COUNTIF, AVERAGEIFFormulas: =SUMIF (range, criteria, sum range), =COUNTIF(range, criteria), =AVERAGEIF(range, criteria, average range)10. CONCATENATEIt is the procedure of combining the 2 different cells into one cell.

Finding all the required right Excel Formulas For The Job. There are around 316 predefined or built in functions in Excel