Navigate Inside Worksheets Arrow Keys Move one cell up, down, left, or right in a worksheet. Page Down/ Page Up Move one screen down / one screen up in a worksheet. Alt+ Page Down/ Alt+ Page Up Move one screen to the right / to the left in a worksheet.

To use keyboard shortcuts in MS Excel Mac OS X: - Open your MS Excel document - If you want to highlight the row that you are in hit Shift + space bar - If you want to highlight a whole column hit.

Tab/ Shift+ Tab Move one cell to the right / to the left in a worksheet. Ctrl+ Arrow Keys Move to the edge of next data region (cells that contains data) Home Move to the beginning of a row in a worksheet. Ctrl+ Home Move to the beginning of a worksheet.

Ctrl+ End Move to the last cell with content on a worksheet. Ctrl+ F Display the Find and Replace dialog box (with Find selected). Ctrl+ H Display the Find and Replace dialog box (with Replace selected). Shift+ F4 Repeat last find. Ctrl+ g (or f5) Display the 'Go To' dialog box. Ctrl+ Arrow Left/ Ctrl+ Arrow Right Inside a cell: Move one word to the left / to the right. Home/ End Inside a cell: Move to the beginning / to the end of a cell entry.

Alt+ Arrow Down Display the AutoComplete list e.g. In cell with dropdowns or autofilter. End Turn 'End' mode on. In End mode, press arrow keys to move to the next nonblank cell in the same column or row as the active cell.

From here use arrow keys to move by blocks of data, home to move to last cell, or enter to move to the last cell to the right. Work with Data Selections. Select Cells Shift+ Space Select the entire row. Ctrl+ Space Select the entire column. Ctrl+ Shift+ * (asterisk) Select the current region around the active cell. Qb desktop for mac. Ctrl+ a (or ctrl+ Shift+ spacebar) Select the entire worksheet or the data-containing area.

Pressing ctrl+ a a second time then selects entire worksheet. Ctrl+ Shift+ Page Up Select the current and previous sheet in a workbook. Ctrl+ Shift+ O Select all cells with comments. Shift+ Arrow Keys Extend the selection by one cell. Ctrl+ Shift+ Arrow Key Extend the selection to the last cell with content in row or column.

Shift+ Page Down/ Shift+ Page Up Extend the selection down one screen /up one screen. Shift+ Home Extend the selection to the beginning of the row.

Ctrl+ Shift+ Home Extend the selection to the beginning of the worksheet. Ctrl+ Shift+ End Extend the selection to the last used cell on the worksheet (lower-right corner). Manage Active Selections F8 Turn on extension of selection with arrow keys without having to keep pressing shift. Shift+ F8 Add another (adjacent or non-adjacent) range of cells to the selection.

Use arrow keys and shift+ arrow keys to add to selection. Shift+ Backspace Select only the active cell when multiple cells are selected. Ctrl+ Backspace Show active cell within selection. (period) Move clockwise to the next corner of the selection. Enter/ Shift+ Enter Move active cell down / up in a selection. Tab/ Shift+ Tab Move active cell right / left in a selection. Ctrl+ Alt+ Arrow Right/ Ctrl+ Alt+ Arrow Left Move to the right / to the left between non-adjacent selections (with multiple ranges selected).

Esc Cancel Selection. Edit Inside Cells F2 Edit the active cell with cursor at end of the line. Alt+ Enter Start a new line in the same cell. Enter Complete a cell entry and move down in the selection. With multiple cells selected: fill cell range with current cell.

Shift+ Enter Complete a cell entry and move up in the selection. Tab/ Shift+ Tab Complete a cell entry and move to the right / to the left in the selection. Esc Cancel a cell entry. Backspace Delete the character to the left of the insertion point, or delete the selection. Delete Delete the character to the right of the insertion point, or delete the selection. Ctrl+ Delete Delete text to the end of the line.

Ctrl+; (semicolon) Insert current date. Ctrl+ Shift+: (colon) Insert current time.

Ctrl+ T Show all content as standard numbers. (So 14:15 becomes 14.25 etc for the entire file) To undo press ctrl + t again. Edit Active or Selected Cells Ctrl+ D Fill complete cell down (Copy above cell). Ctrl+ R Fill complete cell to the right (Copy cell from the left).

Ctrl+ ' Fill cell values down and edit (Copy above cell values). Ctrl+ ' (apostrophe) Fill cell formulas down and edit (Copy above cell formulas).

Ctrl+ L Insert a table (display Create Table dialog box). Ctrl+ - Delete Cell/Row/Column Menu Ctrl+ - with row / column selected Delete row / delete column. Ctrl+ Shift+ [+ ] Insert Cell/Row/Column Menu Ctrl+ Shift+ [+ with row / column selected Insert row/ insert column.