Appendix B. Keyboard Shortcuts

What follows is a list of selected Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts, culled from Microsoft's more comprehensive listing(you can view all the shortcuts by tapping F1–itself a shortcut–calling up Excel's 2010 help component, and clicking the Keyboard Shortcut link). I've added explanatory comments where I thought they'd help.

Remember that you can activate ribbon and button group commands by pressing the ALT key, which instates what Excel calls Key Tips atop the ribbon:

Keyboard Shortcuts

These too could qualify as keyboard shortcuts (see Chapter 1).

By definition, a shortcut offers swifter way to execute a command that would otherwise ...

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