This document provides a 101 guide on MS Excel with shortcuts and formulas. It covers topics like formatting tables, conditional formatting, shortcuts, formulas like SUM, COUNTIF, VLOOKUP, and Pivot Tables. The guide includes over 50 shortcuts for functions like autofit, zoom, hiding/unhiding rows and columns, filtering, finding and replacing, and formatting dates and times. Contact information is provided at the end for learning resources on Excel.

1. QUICK
LEARNING
GUIDE FOR
FRESERS
A 101 GUIDE ON MS EXCEL
Created 9 DEC 2017
Modified: 2 SPE 2019
S. M. BENZIR AHMED

2. MS Excel : Color & Design Matters
⁻ Table Border
⁻ Cell Background
⁻ Conditional Formatting
⁻ Omitting Cell Lines
⁻ Formatted Table and Get rid of it
⁻ Feel of Merged Cell by Not Merging
⁻ Design in Graphs

3. MS EXCEL : MAGIC OF SHORTCUTS
Description Keys
Redo Ctrl + Y
Hide one more digit of the number after decimal Alt, H, 9
One Row Up Shift + Enter
Applies the Number format with two decimal places, thousands separator, and minus sign (-)
for negative values.
Ctrl + Shift + 1
Hide/Unhide Column Ctrl + 0 / Ctrl + Shift + 0
Select Whole Column Ctrl + Space Bar
Appear Move or Copy Sheet Window Alt, E, M
Add/Remove filter Ctrl + Shift + L
Search box in filter Alt + Down Arrow, E
Repeats the last command or action, if possible. F4
Set Anchor ($) within a Formula. Use while your cursor in a cell in formula. Press once to
Anchor Column & Row, Pre twice to Anchor row, thrice for column, press time fourth to reset
that
F4
% Shows Ctrl + Shift + 5
Display Formulas Ctrl + `

4. MS EXCEL : MAGIC OF SHORTCUTS
Description Keys
Sum All together Alt + = (Equal)
Displays or hides the Ribbon, a component of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. Ctrl + F1
Shows Right Click options, if you don't have mouse Shift + F10
Selects the current region around the active cell (the data area enclosed by blank rows and
blank columns). In a PivotTable, it selects the entire PivotTable report.
Ctrl + Shift + 8
Select Whole Row Shift + Space
Hide/Unhide Row Ctrl + 9 / Ctrl + Shift + 9
Add Row/Column (After selecting row/column) Ctrl + + (Plus)
Freeze Rows and Column Alt, W, F, F
Table All Borders to Selected Cells Alt, H, B, A
Add New Sheet
Shift + F11 or
ALT+SHIFT+F1
Copy Active Sheet Drag it beside. Just like
copying a file/folder.
Deletes active Sheet Alt, E, L
Hides Active/Selected Sheets Alt, O, H, H

5. MS EXCEL : MAGIC OF SHORTCUTS
Description Keys
Rename Active Sheet Alt, O, H, R
Selects the current and next sheet in a workbook. Ctrl + Shift + Page Up /Down
Zoom in/Zoom out Use Scroll Wheel of Mouse
Autofit a column Alt, H, O, I
Save as Alt + F2
Displays the Paste Special dialog box Ctrl + Alt + V
Paste Cut/Copied Column/Row Ctrl + Shift + [Plus Sign +]
Fill-Handle and Replication Ctrl + D
Use suggested formula Tab, use Arrow keys if many
Cross a line (for better maintiaing work list) Ctrl + 5
Current Date Ctrl + ;
Current Time Ctrl + Shift + ;
Shortcut to Set Password, opens password dialogue box Alt, F, I, P, E

6. FORMULA & PIVOT
⁻ SUM
⁻ SUMIF
⁻ SUMIFS
⁻ COUNT
⁻ COUNTIF
⁻ COUNTIFS
⁻ IF
⁻ IFERROR
⁻ VLOOKUP
⁻ PIVOT

7. FEW OTHERS FORMULA & FORMAT
Description Keys
ROUNDUP =ROUNDUP(number, digits)
Find and Replace =Down(number, digits)
Get Text lenth =LEN(Text)
Keep and remove number of letter in a cell =Left/Right(Text, Chahracter)
What to do if Error =Iferror((formula),)
Find Hour only =Hour(Cell)
Get Month in three letter =TEXT(A1,mmm)
Get Month in full name =TEXT(A1,mmmm)
Get serial of Week day's name/year from a date =Day/Year(Cell Address)
Custom Format (<POSITIVE>;<NEGATIVE>;<ZERO>;<TEXT>) 0%; -0%; ; @
Remove Extra Space after, before or in between =TRIM(A1)
Converts a numatic cell value to number while it's in non-numaric format =Numbervalue(Cell Address)
Changes cells's text caps, respectively - make sentence case, all caps and all lower case Proper(Cell Address),
Upper(Cell Address),
Lower(Cell Address)

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