Excel 2016 Shortcuts Pdf

Microsoft Office 2016 comes jam-packed with features. See shortcuts and tips for using the keyboard, mouse, and ribbon to get fast access to the most commonly used commands. You’ll master Office 2016 in no time!

Microsoft Office 2016 Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft Office 2016 provides hundreds of commands, but you’ll likely only use a handful of those commands on a regular basis. To save time, use these Office 2016 keyboard shortcuts. With little effort, you can open files, find content, edit that content, and more!

Microsoft Office 2016 Mouse Button Functions

You can control Microsoft Office 2016 with your mouse or your keyboard. The mouse actions in this table work whether you’re using Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, or Outlook.

Microsoft Office 2016 Ribbon Tabs

Microsoft Office 2016 displays commands in a series of icons stored on different tabs. This combination of icons and tabs is known as the Ribbon interface, which appears in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Access. The following tables show the commands grouped under each ribbon tab for each of the five programs.

Here are the commands for Microsoft Word 2016.

Here are the useful things you should know for Excel 2016.

Here are the Microsoft PowerPoint commands that you should know.

This list wouldn’t be complete without these useful Outlook 2016 commands.

And finally, don’t forget these handy Microsoft Access 2016 commands.

Of all the programs included in Microsoft’s Office suite, Excel is perhaps the most intimidating. There’s an enormous scope to what you can accomplish with the software, and that can be overwhelming. Even finding the desired function from a packed toolbar can be a challenge — unless you know the right keyboard shortcuts.

It might be impossible to commit all the combinations in this guide to memory, but even one or two essential shortcuts can have a massive impact if you use Excel on a regular basis.

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Shortcuts to Help Set Up Your Spreadsheet

When you’re just getting started with a new spreadsheet, there are plenty of tasks that can be sped up significantly with the right shortcuts. No matter what you’re making, a few of these should help grease the wheels.

Using CTRL + T — which corresponds to ^ + T on Mac systems — converts a selection of cells into a table, with sortable headers that can be edited at will. CTRL + A or COMMAND + A will typically select the entire spreadsheet, but it will only select cells within a table if you’ve clicked on it before using the shortcut.

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Finally, there are a few shortcuts worth having on hand when you’re working with formulas. You can toggle formulas on and off using CTRL + `, or via ^ + ` on Mac systems. F9 — FN + F9 for Apple users — will calculate your worksheets, or will calculate the current worksheet if combined with a SHIFT modifier. You can also use F9 contextually to evaluate part of a formula.

Here’s one combination that’s sure to see some use whenever you add a row of totals to your spreadsheet. Use ALT + = to Autosum the cells you have selected — Mac users can execute the same functionality be pressing COMMAND + SHIFT + T.

Navigational Shortcuts

When you’re working with a large Excel document, it can sometimes be a fiddly and time-consuming process just to navigate to the data you need. Learn these shortcuts by heart, and you’ll be whipping around your spreadsheet at a mile a minute. If you find yourself losing the active cell, worry not — you can navigate to it instantly by pressing CTRL + BACKSPACE on a PC or COMMAND + DEL on a Mac.

On a blank document, pressing CTRL + an arrow key will simply take you to its outer limits, but on a populated spreadsheet it’s much more useful. Instead, it will take you to the edge of your data in the stipulated direction, which makes it a handy way of finding the last row or column in a particular table. On a Mac, the command is ^ + an arrow key.

Once you’ve found the cell you’re looking to work on, you can of course double-click it to start making edits. However, there’s a keyboard shortcut available too; simply press F2 with the desired cell selected to start editing immediately — on a Mac, you’ll need to hit ^ + U. Shift + F2 (or FN + Shift + F2 on a Mac) adds or edits a comment attached to your selection.

A few combinations were designed to help with negotiating a document that spans more than one sheet. CTRL + HOME sends you back to cell A1 of the current sheet, while CTRL + PGUP and CTRL + PGDN switch between worksheets. Shift + F11 adds a new worksheet altogether.

On a Mac, the above commands are all a little different; FN + ^ + ? takes you back to cell A1, FN + ^ + ?/? switch between worksheets, and FN + Shift + F11 creates a new worksheet.

If you’re ever in a position where you think better of something you’ve just entered into a cell, a quick tap of ESC is all you need to remove it.

Input-Related Shortcuts

Whether you’re delving deep into data entry, or simply setting up your spreadsheet for the first time8 Tips for How to Learn Excel Quickly8 Tips for How to Learn Excel QuicklyNot as comfortable with Excel as you would like? Start with simple tips for adding formulas and managing data. Follow this guide, and you'll be up to speed in no time.Read More, using these shortcuts will speed up your input considerably. For starters, press CTRL + ; with a cell selected to populate it with today’s date — that’s ^ + ; on a Mac. Using CTRL + SHIFT + : (or ^ + SHIFT + :) prints the current time instead.

CTRL + D or ^ + D on OS X will populate the currently selected cell with whatever is in the cell directly above it, and using CTRL + R/^ + R will use whatever’s in the cell directly to the left. In certain cases, it might be beneficial to combine these shortcuts with CTRL + SPACEBAR (^ + SPACEBAR for Mac users) or SHIFT + SPACEBAR, which select an entire column and row respectively.

If you’re ever in need of a way to fill any selection of cells with one input, there’s a very easy method of doing so. Make your selection and enter whatever is necessary in the active cell, then press CTRL + ENTER (^ + RETURN on a Mac) to populate the whole thing.

We all know that CTRL + V is the shortcut for paste, but in Excel things can be a little more complicated than normal. CTRL + ALT + V (or ^ + COMMAND + V on a Mac) opens the paste special dialog, which can be very handy if you’re importing something from another application and want to ensure that it’s unchanged by the process.

Formatting Shortcuts

Your go-to formatting shortcut should be CTRL + 1 (COMMAND + 1 on Mac systems). No matter what you have selected, this should open the basic formatting dialog for that content.

It’s often useful to format particular cells to a particular type of number in Excel, and there are plenty of different shortcuts that will instantly do that job. Each uses CTRL + SHIFT + another key, or ^ + SHIFT + another key on OS X.

CTRL + SHIFT + ~ applies the general format, while CTRL + SHIFT + $ puts numbers in currency format, appropriately enough. CTRL + SHIFT + % will unsurprisingly turn your numbers into percentages, and CTRL + SHIFT + ^ will present it in scientific format. CTRL + SHIFT + # results in a date, CTRL + SHIFT + @ results in a time, and CTRL + SHIFT + ! applies standard number formatting.

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From here, you can fine-tune your borders by using ALT + R, ALT + L, ALT + T and ALT + B for borders on the right, left, top and bottom respectively. Corresponding combinations for Mac users are COMMAND + ? + arrow buttons. Using the shortcuts once will add the border, just input it again to remove it. CTRL + SHIFT + _ (or COMMAND + ? + _) will remove all borders within the current selection.

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1. I would like to know a shortcut on how to insert the em-dash in Excel.
   Thank you.

2. Is there a way for EXCEL to not only find a string in a comment but to also hi-lite it? Some of my comments are very long and its difficult to find the string within the comment.

3. I agree with It - maybe you could do 2 separate versions - one for win and one for mac ?
   Still good though - thanks

4. Shift+F2 doesn't seem to work in Excel 2016, or am I doing something wrong?

   • Disregard, it works. I just had Shift+F2 remapped to do something else.

5. This is great information, but paragraph layout is very difficult to read. You should add a summary chart at the beginning or end for ease of reading.

   • Agree.

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