Tips and tricks to Undo, Redo and Repeating in Ms Excel

Undo, Redo and Repeat operation are used for recovering from mistakes and help us edit our document more efficiently and in a better way.

UNDO

This Excel feature can easily correct your mistakes you made while working on your excel worksheet. You can reverse every command or a step you have taken in your Excel worksheet. The undo located on quick access toolbar which is normally displayed on the left side of the excel title bar. Or appears next to the “Save button” on Quick Access toolbar. We can undo from keyboard by just pressing Ctrl + Z and to make multiple undo just continue to press Ctrl + Z until all the mistakes have been undone.

Now you must be wondering how many actions we can undo. We can undo last 100 actions and can do that by using undo for multiple times. There are some commands and actions we can’t undo in Ms. Excel. Can’t undo anything we do by using the File Button which is on top left of the excel worksheet and also the effect of executing a macro.

REDO

Great thing about Ms. Excel there is an undo for an undo, we call it redo and we can do that by pressing Ctrl + Y or F4 from the Keyboard. In Ms. Excel the redo button located on the Quick access toolbar and it is on the right side of the undo button.

REPEAT

Lets Say we want to format a report and while creating a report we do a lot of formatting like font colors and size, bold italic, background color, cell borders etc. to repeat these formatting in a cell we use the repeat function Ctrl + Y. Repeat function is a great timesaver. We can insert the Repeat button in quick access toolbar because it is not normally there. To do this first step is to go to customize quick access toolbar by right clicking quick access toolbar. From there select popular commands form the drop down list on the left in Excel options dialog box.

Just select repeat in that list of commands and click add and then ok.

Here is the list of few keyboard short cuts which are related to the tutorial above and also will be helpful while working with Ms. Excel.

Ctrl + C ============= Copy the selected cells.

Ctrl + A ============= Select all contents of the worksheet.

Ctrl + B ============= Bold highlighted selection.

Ctrl + I  ============= Italic highlighted selection.

Ctrl + Z ============= Undo last action.

Ctrl + Y ============= Redo last Undo.

F2 ================= to edit the selected cell.

F5 ================= Go to a specific cell. For example, C2.

F7 ================= To Spell check the selected text or entire document.

F11 ================ It creates new chart on separate chart sheet.

Ctrl + A ============= Select all contents.

Ctrl + Arrow key ======= it move to next section of text.

Ctrl + Space ========== Select entire column.

Shift + Space ========= Select entire row.