Excel is a very useful and powerful tool. But
before moving forward it is really important to know the keyboard movements among the cells.
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Tab
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Moves one cell to the right
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Enter
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Moves one cell down
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Having said the use of enter and tab I
still prefer to use the arrow keys to
move from left, right, up or down.
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Page down
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Moves down one screen
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Page up
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Moves up one screen
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Home
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Moves to column a of active row
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Ctrl + Home
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Moves to cell A1
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Ctrl + End
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Moves to last
cell used in the worksheet
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Page down
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Moves one screen down
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Page up
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Moves one screen up
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Ctrl + !
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To format cells ?(do not use shift key for
exclamation, it’s simply Ctrl + 1)
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How
to switch Between Worksheets?
Mostly we all know how useful alt + tab is to switch between windows.
Similarly we can also switch between excel worksheet by simply using : Ctrl+ Page down – to move to next
worksheet, Ctrl+ Page up – to move
to the previous worksheet.
Does
excel have unlimited number of rows and columns?
While you’re working in excel you must be
thinking the no. of cells and rows in excel worksheet is unlimited. But no! it’s
not unlimited. You can simply find the number of rows and columns in your
worksheet by using Ctrl + down Arrow and
Ctrl + right Arrow.
So By now you know Office
Excel grid is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns.
How
to add rows or columns?
At times after doing a whole lot of work in
excel we find that certains row or column is missed by us. So often we right
click then go to insert then followed by that we get 4 options i.e,1) shift
cells right- which moves the selected cell to the right 2) Shift cells down –
moves the selected cell down 3)entire row-inserts an entire row above your
selected cell 4)entire column – inserts an entire column towards the left side
of your selected cell.
There is another way out of doing this by
simply pressing ctrl followed by “I” (which stands for insert) followed by “R”
(which stands for row) that will insert you an entire row and similarly Ctrl
followed by “I” followed by “C” which will insert you an entire Column. Do not
hold all the keys at the same time time.
So the way you insert a row by pressing
ctrl then “I” then “R” , you can also delete an entire row by pressing Ctrl
followed by “d” followed by “R” and the same goes for columns.
