XLKeys Blog
Practical guides for spreadsheet users who want familiar Excel shortcuts, formula auditing, and modeling tools inside Google Sheets.
I recently moved from Investment Banking to Strategic Finance and one of the biggest annoyances was losing all the keyboard shortcuts that made me an Excel power user. Here are the two best ways to get them back.
Read guideShort answer: no, but there are some pretty close alternatives.
Read guideEvery Excel formatting shortcut I missed when I moved to Google Sheets — fill color, borders, autofit, freeze panes, number formats — and how to get them all back.
Read guideGoogle Sheets is surprisingly easier to trace formulas in than Excel, despite its other limitations.
Read guideThere’s no native data table feature in Google Sheets, but it’s still possible!
Read guideGoogle Sheets doesn’t natively support Alt keys, but there’s a few workarounds to make it work.
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