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Reply Wed 18 Mar 2009, 16:38Delegate Priya said...

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how to use the short cut keys.

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Reply Mon 23 Mar 2009, 13:47Trainer Maggie said...

RE: Excel

Hello Priya,

Thanks for your question and welcome to the forum.

When using short cut keys you need to ensure that you are clicked in the right place or that the item you wish to apply the short cut to is selected/highlighted before using the short cut key.

For example - When using the short cut key ctrl c for copy - select the data you wish to copy hold down crtl and hit the letter c.

Thanks and kind regards

Maggie

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Ctrl+d's double life

Suppose I have a formula in B1 that I wish to copy into B2:B10. I can select B1:B10 then press Ctrl+d to copy the formula down the selected range. Users generally ignore this shortcut in favour of double-clicking on the fill handle to copy down, but Ctrl+d is useful sometimes particularly when there is no data in surrounding columns to guide to how far the double-click method should copy formulae.

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