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Access ribbon commands with Alt key sequences

Access ribbon commands with Alt key sequences

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Access ribbon commands with Alt key sequences

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- [Voiceover] Excel has hundreds of keystroke combinations. It also has keystroke shortcut capability that you can more or less create on your own. If you hold down the ALT key for about a second what pops up on the screen? Letters next to each of the ribbon tabs. Now if I press the letter H right now you'll see how that's associated with the Home tab. Look what happens next. It activates either a two letter or a number or a single letter option for the choices that are available on the Home tab. If we wanted to get to some of these features by way of keystroke shortcuts, we can use them with the ALT key. So for example, as we're looking around here we do see that here's the letter K next to comma. Now it'd be hard for us help you remember that. It sounds like it could be a K, comma. But nevertheless how would we get here to this feature? We would've pressed ALT, H, and then K. So let's suppose we'd like to format these numbers here as well as these over here. I'll highlight them all…

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