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Selecting Column(s) or Row(s) Using Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Excel

3 July,2013
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While preparing reports and dashboard in MS Excel keyboard shortcuts, its time-consuming to select the entire column using the mouse. These excel shortcuts is useful
to save time and help you do your work faster using the keyboard shortcut keys. How to select row with the Excel shortcut?

Excel keyboard shortcuts select Column:-

Select any cell which you want to select

Press and hold the CTRL key on your keyboard
Press the space key
Release the CTRL key and space key and the entire row will be selected
If you, want to select more than 1 column, don’t release the shift key, use the arrow key to select more than 1 column

Similarly while selecting rows using the keyboard, we can follow these steps -

Select any cell which you want to select

Press and hold the shift key on your keyboard
Press the space key
Release the shift key and space key and the entire row will be selected
If you wish to select more than 1 row, don’t release the shift key; use the arrow key to select more than 1 row.

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Also you can select couple of Columns and Rows using shift and arrow key, which are the shortcut keys in Microsoft Excel.

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10 thoughts on “Selecting Column(s) or Row(s) Using Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Excel”

Dhananjaya
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November 27,
2014 at 9:19 am

Indeed very useful for those work on excel.

Thanks a Lot

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