Help and Menus – Microsoft Excel Shortcuts
200 Excel Shortcuts for PC and Mac
So you think you’re fancy, huh? Just because you know how to copy and paste without the click of the mouse in Excel. Well, get ready to be even fancier (and more productive) because we’ve curated 200 of the best Excel keyboard shortcuts.
Help and Menus
As with all Microsoft Office products, Excel offers a number of helpful tools that can help you to organize and optimize your spreadsheet and all it contains. Simple shortcuts for tools such as spell-check and thesaurus and be a accessed with the touch of a button, as well as more complex tools such as the cell modification menu.
| Shortcut | Windows | Mac |
|---|---|---|
| Open spell-check If you need to check the spelling of text within your Excel spreadsheet, use this shortcut. No matter where your selection currently is located, Excel will prompt you to check the entire document if that is your goal. | F7 | Fn F7 |
| Open thesaurus Want to spice up your vocabulary? Use this shortcut get some help from a thesaurus for selected or typed-out text. | Shift F7 | Fn Shift F7 |
| Open shortcut menu Access Excel’s shortcut help that can help you learn more about navigating the application while you work. | Shift F10 | Fn Shift F10 |
| Open control menu This shortcut opens the control window without needed to move from your current selection with your worksheet. Unfortunately this shortcut is only available on windows. | Alt Space | |
| Open cell moderation menu When formatting a single cell or a group of selected cells, this shortcut opens the Style dialog. This menu has all the options you need to size and edit your cells to your exact specifications. | Alt ' | ⌘ Shift L |