There are some basic keyboard shortcuts you can use in Microsoft Excel for navigating your active sheet and the workbook. These can save you time from having to grab your mouse or use your trackpad.

In Excel, it’s a bit more complicated because you cannot assign a keyboard shortcut the way you can in Word. As you saw above, each symbol has a Microsoft-assigned shortcut code, but short of ...

I keep my shortcut list in a small window I can Alt-Tab (or Alt-Esc) to when I want to refresh my memory. These shortcuts have really come in handy with the 2007 versions of Word and Excel.