This article describes the keyboard shortcuts, function keys, and some other common shortcut keys in Excel for Windows. Notes: To quickly find a shortcut in this article, you can use the Search.

For users with mobility or vision disabilities, keyboard shortcuts can be easier than using the touchscreen, and are an essential alternative to using a mouse. Here you'll find links to most keyboard shortcut articles for Microsoft 365 apps.

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You can customize keyboard shortcuts (or shortcut keys) by assigning them to a command, macro, font, style, or frequently used symbol. You can also remove keyboard shortcuts. You can assign or remove keyboard shortcuts by using a mouse or just the keyboard.

Keyboard shortcuts allow you to quickly complete commands and functions without using a mouse. The shortcuts in this topic refer to the US keyboard layout. Keys for other layouts might not correspond exactly to the keys on a US keyboard.

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The keyboard shortcuts in the following table can be used to activate the KeyTips described in Use KeyTips to access the ribbon. The table lists the most often used keyboard shortcuts in a Microsoft 365 app.

Office Add-ins can enable custom keyboard shortcuts you can use in Excel and Word to invoke add-in functionality. Each Office Add-in you install can change which shortcuts are available for you to use.

You can create custom keyboard shortcuts in Excel or Word for Mac within the application itself. To create custom keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint, Outlook, or OneNote for Mac, you can use the built-in capability in Mac OS X.

In Word for the web, PowerPoint for the web, and Excel for the web, you can undo or redo basic actions. More advanced options are available in desktop versions of Office. Undo an action. Press Ctrl+Z or select (Undo) in the ribbon until you've fixed the issue. You can't undo some actions, such as selecting commands on the File tab or saving a file.