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"Ctrl+Shift+*(Asterisk)" What are these keys beneficial for any Excel office user?



Hello, everyone. I'm Michael. Welcome you to my Excel tip blog.

Today, I'm going to give you the 3 key buttons to select the current region, which are around the cell(s) in the Excel worksheet.

Tip Quiz

What's the shortcut keys extending the selection to the first cell in an Excel worksheet?

Whenever you fill out any data into cells in the Excel worksheet. For any reason, if you want to select all the active cells within it (Spreadsheet).

What is the method you are going to do?

Do you have your own the "How-To" for handling it?

Whether you have one or have not. I am going to share you the three key buttons, shortcut way on a keyboard of your PC, laptop, notebook, tablet; it is very simple to deal with it.

You just press these buttons “Ctrl + Shift + * (Asterisk)” on the keyboard. This shortcut will result in selecting the current active cells that region around. In case there is just only one empty row or column, it will abandon the other cell group that because the blank cells of the empty row or column will separate them apart.

Well, If you are going to select them all [To select all the active cells the whole spreadsheets], use “Ctrl + A” instead.

Shortcut for: To select the current region around the active cells.

Windows shortcut


CtrlShift *

You will see how to use the keyboard keys to operate an Excel worksheet select all active cells instantly.

This symbol ' * ' is called Asterisk.

Does today's article help you?

Tip Answer

 a. It's "Shift" "Home".

 b. It's "Ctrl" "Shift" "Home".

 c. It's "Ctrl" "Home".

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Have a present day!

See you again. Thanks for reading.

Posted by: Michael Leng



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