keystroke to go to first worksheet cell from anywhere in notebook

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sheepranch

Looking for a shortcut keystroke that would place me back to the A1 cell of
the 1st worksheet from anywhere in the notebook. I know that I can get to
that point by using "control+page up". Quatro Pro spoiled me by letting me
use "Control+Home"

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JLatham

I don't think there's a shortcut key combination to do that. You can use
[Ctrl]+[PageUp] to move to the previous page to the left in a book. Repeat
to move through all pages until you get to the first one.

You can use the Excel Help feature, topic Excel shortcut and function keys
to get a complete listing of the documented shortcuts. I didn't see what you
are asking for in it, but may have missed it.
 
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Steel Monkey

If you want to create a shortcut to go to A1 in your first worksheet wh
dont you just record a macro with a shortcut key assigned to it an
select your first worksheet and select cell A1?

The macro would end up looking something like this :

Sub gohome()
Worksheets("Sheet1").Activate
Range("A1").Select
End Su
 
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Ragdyer

This is not keystrokes, but,
FWIW
Create a named range!

Click in Sheet1 A1,
Click in name box,
Type in something short, like
top
Hit <Enter>

Now, from *any* sheet, click in the name box and click on "top",
And you're there!
 
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sheepranch

Thanks for the info. I figured that out. I was hoping that there was a less
cumbersome way of getting back to worksheet 1, A1

JLatham said:
I don't think there's a shortcut key combination to do that. You can use
[Ctrl]+[PageUp] to move to the previous page to the left in a book. Repeat
to move through all pages until you get to the first one.

You can use the Excel Help feature, topic Excel shortcut and function keys
to get a complete listing of the documented shortcuts. I didn't see what you
are asking for in it, but may have missed it.

sheepranch said:
Looking for a shortcut keystroke that would place me back to the A1 cell of
the 1st worksheet from anywhere in the notebook. I know that I can get to
that point by using "control+page up". Quatro Pro spoiled me by letting me
use "Control+Home"

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sheepranch

Thanks. I'll try making a macro...never done that before. Would your
suggested macro be a "generic" macro for any notebook I was in or would I
have to make a macro for each separate notebook?
 
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Gord Dibben

The proper term for an Excel file is Workbook, not notebook.

If you want a macro to be available for all open workbooks, record it to your
Personal Macro Workbook.

Tools>Macro>Record New Macro. In the dialog that opens, select Person Macro
Workbook from the "store macro in" drop-down.

This workbook is named Personal.xls and is created automatically and stored by
Excel in your XLSTART folder.

This file will open up whenever you start a session of Excel.

When it opens, you can click on Windw>Hide and hide it.

Save it when asked and it will open hidden from then on.

For more on Personal.xls see Help on that subject.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
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sheepranch

Thanks for the info. I'll try it.

Gord Dibben said:
The proper term for an Excel file is Workbook, not notebook.

If you want a macro to be available for all open workbooks, record it to your
Personal Macro Workbook.

Tools>Macro>Record New Macro. In the dialog that opens, select Person Macro
Workbook from the "store macro in" drop-down.

This workbook is named Personal.xls and is created automatically and stored by
Excel in your XLSTART folder.

This file will open up whenever you start a session of Excel.

When it opens, you can click on Windw>Hide and hide it.

Save it when asked and it will open hidden from then on.

For more on Personal.xls see Help on that subject.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
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