Learn Excel 2011 for Mac

Driving Excel with Keyboard Shortcuts

If you like to work with the keyboard, spend some time learning Excel's built-in keyboard shortcuts and creating custom shortcuts for other commands you want to be able to give from the keyboard.

For the commands you use often from the menu bar, you can quickly learn the keyboard shortcuts by opening the menus and looking at the shortcut keys shown to the right of the commands. The File menu (shown on the left in Figure 1–8) and the Edit menu (shown on the right in Figure 1–8) have the most keyboard shortcuts assigned at first.

Figure 1–8. You can quickly learn essential keyboard shortcuts by looking at ...