Here i have presented the excel keyboard shortcuts with CTRL as one of the primary key. Try remembering as many as possible. The best way to see the practical application of these shortcut keys is to try out them in excel. Write a number in a cell and keep trying out these combinations. Practice them for 3-4 times by looking at the sheet and after think of an activity that you want to do and then try to remember the keystroke required to accomplish the task. Donot move to the next blog in series until 80% of the shortcuts are successfully reproduced

Of the above the functions that i think will be used the most include, Ctrl + R and Ctrl +D, Ctrl + + and Ctrl + -. So in the next post we will be discussing about each of these shortcut keys in brief.

Excel has loads of shortcuts which have the potential to make your life and work simpler. Learning these shortcuts is one of the key requirements for making financial models quickly and efficiently. Presented below are some of the shortcuts that i find particularly useful and handy. The reader should make a concerted effort in remembering the shortcuts. The shortcuts that i am going to present here are easily available on a wide variety of websites. These shortcuts are grouped by the utility they serve. Here i have tried to present them according to key combinations for e.g. all shortucts which require Ctrl to be pressed have been grouped together and presented. I believe it is much easier to see the formulas this way than trying to remember them utility wise.