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Make sure you know these 10 Excel tips to make your use of Excel more streamlined and e�cient.

Ten Tips to Make You More Productive in Excel

QuickTips!

Press Ctrl-Enter to keep the active cell in place

TIP 1

Pressing Enter by itself moves the active cell below the one you are

working in. Keeping the active cell in place allows you to perform

additional actions like copying the cell contents, such as a formula, to

the rest of the cells in the column quickly.

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Enter Ctrl+

Don’t capitalize functionnames whenyou type them

TIP 2

If you are using a single function by itself, there’s no need to hold

down the Shift key or press Caps Lock when you type the function.

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ShiftCapsLock

Don’t use a right parenthesis when typing a single function

TIP 3

There’s also no need for the closing or right parenthesis when you’re

using a function by itself. Excel will add that for you automatically.

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Don’t use the Collapse button in dialog boxes

TIP 4

There’s no need to use the Collapse button in dialog boxes. For

example, when you’re selecting cells to define a range of data, you

can just click once in the field in the dialog box to make it active and

then select your data.

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Instead, just click in

the field and then

select the range.

TIP 4

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Note: This is what it looks like

if you click the Collapse

button. But you don’t have to.

Right-click a column or row to bring up the shortcut menu.

TIP 5

Instead of clicking to select a row or column and then choosing an

option such as formatting the cells, right-click or Ctrl-click the row or

column to quickly access the shortcut menu.

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If you need to format cells, select them and then right-click to activate themini toolbar

TIP 6

No need to select the cells and then go back to the Home tab and

find the formatting options when you can get to them quickly right

next to the cells you want to format.

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Press Shift+F10 to activate the shortcut menu and not the mini toolbar.

TIP 7

Sure, you can right-click to activate the shortcut menu–but you can keep

your hands on the keyboard and activate it by pressing Shift+F10 instead.

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ShiftF10+

Press Ctrl+Shift+F1 to jump to a full-screen display

TIP 8

When you want to put all of your focus and attention on the contents of your

Excel doc or when you need to display or present your spreadsheet, press

Ctrl+Shift+F1 to go to full screen view. Press again to return to normal view.

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Ctrl

Shift

F1

+

+

Format an Entire Column to get more useful stats in the Status bar

TIP 9

If you have columns with text headers and data in them, you don’t have to just

select the data or numbers to apply a formatting change. Just click on the

column (or row) letter and change to your desired formatting options. Number

formatting won’t a�ect the appearance of text and when you select the entire

column or row with the same formatting, you get better stats in the Status bar.

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Create achart without selecting a group of cells

TIP 10

If the cells that you want to use to create a chart are surrounded by blank

cells, click on any one of them and press F11 to create a chart on a separate

sheet or press Alt+F1 to create a chart on the current tab.

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There you have it–10 tips that you can use every day in Excel.