Be it school or college or offices, the use of MS Excel is most common.

MS Excel continues to remain one of the most favored and used analytical tools when it comes to storing, recording, visualizing, and analyzing data. MS Excel is also used for performing mathematical operations and presenting the data in the form of a variety of charts and graphs.

This makes the understanding of complex statistical data quick and easy.

Significance of Shortcut Keys for MS Excel:

To perform these tasks, MS Excel also has provided the user with many shortcut keys. Using these shortcut keys, a variety of complex operations can be accomplished by hitting a few simple keyboard strokes.

The speed and efficiency of a typical assignment in MS Excel can be increased if the user has a sound knowledge of shortcut keys in MS Excel. No wonder, shortcut keys are also called 'hotkeys'.

The use of shortcut keys makes the user's job faster, simpler, and easier.

Be it the school or college kid or the manager in the office, knowledge of shortcuts keys is one way to ensure that they prepare and submit the assigned task before their peers or colleagues and this is an  advantage when it comes to standing out in a competitive world.

The use of a shortcut key not only speeds up work but also reduces the use of the mouse. It is a pity that many people, well-versed with MS Excel do not know the correct and complete use of all the shortcut keys or hardly use them for their benefit. It is to be noted that in some cases, these shortcut keys are to be pressed together, so the correct knowledge of how to press these shortcut keys is of prime importance.

The shortcut keys in Excel can also be used by the differently-abled people who may have limitations of mobility or vision.

Examples of some typical shortcut keys in MS Excel:

Though the shortcut keys in Excel are many and covering them may be beyond the scope of this article, a few important and widely used shortcut keys are being covered in this article.

1) Shortcut keys for Workbook:  These are used for operating a workbook.  Some of them are as follows:

2) Shortcut keys for Cell Formatting:  A cell holds the data that we feed into it. Different shortcut keys are available for cell formatting, some of which are:

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