Keyboard Shortcuts

You can avoid reaching for the mouse if you are familiar with keyboard shortcuts. If you forget one of these, use the mouse and go to the menu bar. In each pull down menu you will see keyboard commands given in the right side of the window.

You can avoid reaching for the mouse if you are familiar with keyboard shortcuts. If you forget one of these, use the mouse and go to the menu bar. In each pull down menu you will see keyboard commands given in the right side of the window.

So you are a hotshot who doesn’t need to use a mouse! Fair enough, power users tend to find they can do tasks quicker by using shortcut keys. Shortcut keys are combinations of keystrokes on your keyboard that can make the program do a certain task.

Quickly focus on a specific cell in a Microsoft Excel 2003 worksheet with this keyboard shortcut.

Keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Excel 2003 to navigate to the beginning or end of the current worksheet.

Keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Excel 2003 to skip to the first or last column or row in a worksheet.

Have you split the panes in a Microsoft Excel 2003 worksheet so a row or column is frozen onscreen when scrolling? Here are keyboard shortcuts to jump between the panes.

Microsoft Excel 2003 keyboard shortcut to switch between worksheet tabs.

Using the mouse, it is not easy to select the different chart items when you want to modify or update the definitions.

When you create a chart, Excel checks the number of rows and columns. In the example below, there are six rows (in Column A, Zone) and three columns (years).