Microsoft Excel Tips and Tutorials

If you have a list of say 1000 items and you want to get to the bottom of it you would usually need to use the scroll bar or press the down cursor key and get finger ache!  Well providing you click somewhere within the list you can use ctrl and the down cursor key.  This will move you directly to the end of that particular list.  In the same way ctrl and up / left / right works.

Also if you combine this method by pressing shift at the same time it will move to the end of the list and also select the cells between where you started out from and the end.

Click within a list or range of data you have entered to the spreadsheet and press ctrl and a.  This will select the whole range of data automatically without the need for fiddly dragging.

Drag over the first part of the range you want to select.  Then press and hold the ctrl key on your keyboard and keep it pressed whilst you select the other parts of the range you want to highlight.  You will notice that whilst the ctrl key is selected you are able to select any cells within the spreadsheet even if they are not next to each other.