Shortcut For Select All In Excel In Mac Or PC

This saves you from otherwise having to manually selecting everything yourself, one-by-one.

Shortcut For Select All In Excel In Mac Or PC

Select All shortcut (A Must Know) The universal Select All shortcut for most program (Mac or PC) is: Select All shortcut (PC Users): Ctrl A Select All shortcut (Mac Users) Cmd A That said there are a variety of different ways you can use the shortcut in Word, Excel and PowerPoint to finish your tasks faster and get you to Happy Hour (all discussed below).

How to best use the Select All command In short, this command is best used to quickly grab all the text, numbers, objects, formulas etc.

This allows you to quickly make changes to everything at once.

For example: Change the font style of all the text in a Word document Grab all the formulas or constants in an Excel spreadsheet to change their font color Grab all your PowerPoint objects on a slide to change their shape fill Which makes sense, right Why bother doing things manually (one-by-one) when you can select all your objects at once.

And its this kind of know-how why one person leaves the office at a decent hour, while another wastes away at the office all night.

And if you are on a PC, you can additionally shortcut all of these using your Ribbon Guides (details below).

Select All (Ctrl A) Selects everything within your document so that you can make all the formatting edits that you want at the same time.

Clicking this command with your mouse is the same as hitting Ctrl A on your keyboard (Cmd A on a Mac).

Select Objects Changes your mouse cursor into an arrow symbol that allows you to select an element (chart, picture, SmartArt graphic, etc.) as an object.

When you click with your mouse, you normally click into the object as if you are going to edit it.

The Select Objects command ensures that you select the object itself.

That way you can cut and paste it, or move it around within your document.

Select Text with Similar Formatting Selects all of the text within a Word document that matches the formatting of the text that you have already selected.

This is one of the coolest features in Microsoft Word that hardly anyone knows about.

This command grabs all of the same formatted text within a document, so you can change its formatting all at once.

Ahem amazing 4. The Selection Pane in Word (Alt F10) Opens or closes the Selection Pane in Microsoft Word.

Inside the Selection Pane you can see (and quickly manipulate) all the objects in a Word document.

Similar to the Selection Pane in PowerPoint, it only only shows you the objects on the current page you are currently working on.

That means that if you have 100 charts in your Word document but only 1 chart on your current page, you will only see 1 chart in the Selection Pane.

Select All Shortcuts in Word (Ribbon Guides) Instead of using your mouse to access the selection commands, on a PC you can use your Ribbon Guides.

To use these shortcuts, simply hit the Alt key on your keyboard.

Hitting the Alt key, you will see alphabetical sequences to the commands across your Ribbon.

On a PC, your select all Ribbon Guide shortcuts are: Select All: Alt, H, SL, A Select Objects: Alt, H, SL, O Select Text with Similar Formatting: Alt, H, SL, S Selection Pane: Alt, H, SL, P Note: When using your Ribbon Guide shortcuts in Word, you do not need to hold them down.

Instead, simply hit and let go of them one at a time (following the letters forward).

To learn more about the Microsoft Office ribbon, see this guide by Microsoft here.