Excel: Moving a Selected Range with the Keyboard

Last reviewed: October 31, 1994
Article ID: Q26443

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel, to move an entire selection to the right so that the first column in the new selection is adjacent to the last column in the original selection, press COMMAND+TAB.

Additional key commands for moving selections are as follows:

   Key Combination        Function
   ---------------        --------

   COMMAND+SHIFT+TAB      Moves selection to the left
   COMMAND+RETURN         Moves selection down
   COMMAND+SHIFT+RETURN   Moves selection up

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Last reviewed: October 31, 1994
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