Among Microsoft Office Suite, Excel is the most useful one for engineers. All our engineering degrees we are forced to learn different software that are supposed to help in our professional careers later on, but what we aren’t told is that instead of them, we would be using Microsoft Excel the rest of our lives. Nevertheless, it is a useful and interesting bit of software that you might have to spend the rest of your life with. Here are some of the most useful excel shortcuts that you can use to make lives easier for yourself:
F2 : Edit selected cell
F4 : Repeat the last edit
F9 : Does calculation on all worksheets
F11 : New chart
ALT : Access the ribbon for formulas
ALT + = : Automatically SUM() selected
ALT + Enter : Start a new line in the same cell
ALT + o-c-a : Auto size columns
PG + UP/PG+DOWN : Go to next/previous worksheet
CTRL + ` : Display Formulas
CTRL + Backspace : Show active cell
CTRL + Shift + # : Change Date format with day, month and year.
CTRL + K : To insert Hyperlink.
CTRL+ Shift + $ : Applies the currency format to the selected cells.
CTRL + Shift + & : Applies border to cells
CTRL + B : Change font to Bold
CTRL + I : Change font to Italics
CTRL + U : Underline selected text
CTRL + Shift + ~ : General style number
CTRL + Shift + $ : Currency style number
CTRL + Shift + % : Percentage style Number
CTRL + Shift + ^ : Scientific notation style
CTRL + Shift + # : Date style
CTRL + Shift + @ : Time Style
CTRL + Shift +! : Number Style
CTRL + F12 : Open
CTRL + Spacebar : Select the entire column
CTRL + [ : Select all cells directly referenced by formulas in the selection
CTRL + ; : Insert actual date in active cell
CTRL + : : Insert actual time in active cell
CTRL + A : Select All
CTRL + Shift + J : List Constants
CTRL + D : Copy equation down
CTRL + F : Find
CTRL + H : Find&Replace
CTRL + Right arrow : Move right
CTRL + Left arrow : Move left
CTRL + Up arrow : Move up
CTRL + Down arrow : Move down
CTRL + Enter : Same data in multiple cells
Shift + Spacebar : Select the entire row
Shift + F3 : Find Previous
Using all of these will be tedious and difficult at first, but trust, once you have got the hang of it, it will be just like typing without seeing all over again!