A quick guideline for freshers who are new in MS Excel and want speedup their works.

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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