XLKeys - Excel Shortcuts for Google Sheets

Bring Excel keyboard shortcuts, formula auditing, Goal Seek, Sensitivity Tables, and formatting tools to Google Sheets.

XLKeys brings 70+ Excel keyboard shortcuts to Google Sheets — Alt-key hotkeys, paste special, number formats, borders, plus the analysis tools modelers miss most: Trace Precedents & Dependents, Goal Seek, Sensitivity Tables, and one-keystroke Auto-Color. Your Excel muscle memory, working natively in Sheets. No new shortcuts to learn — press the keys you already know (Ctrl on Windows, Cmd on Mac) and they just work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS — 72 of them, in 19 categories ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Excel formatting and navigation shortcuts you reach for every day: • Alt-key sequences / hotkeys — Excel's full Alt+H, Alt+E, Alt+A, Alt+W key chains work just like the ribbon (use Option on Mac) • Paste Special — values only, formulas only, formatting, transpose, column widths, all-except-borders (Alt+E,S,V works!) • Insert / delete rows and columns in one keystroke • Number formats — %, $, date, time, accounting, scientific + a customizable format cycle (Ctrl+Shift+1) • Borders — top, bottom, outside, all, thick, double-bottom subtotals, remove • Font & fill color cycling through your modeling palette • Alignment, indent cycle, merge, text rotation, freeze panes, gridlines • Filters, decimals, row/column resize and autofit Every shortcut works on Mac and Windows, and every one is remappable in the Options page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FORMULA AUDITING (Pro) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The tools financial modelers need that Sheets doesn't ship with — like having FactSet or Macabacus inside Google Sheets: • Trace Precedents (Ctrl+Shift+[) — see every cell a formula reads from, across sheets, and jump to any of them. Jump back with one key. • Trace Dependents (Ctrl+Shift+]) — see every cell that depends on your selection before you change it • Auto-Color — instantly color-code your model: blue hardcodes, black formulas, purple same-sheet refs, green cross-sheet refs. Colors are customizable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANALYSIS TOOLS (Pro) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Excel's What-If toolkit, finally in Sheets: • Sensitivity Tables — fill an Excel-style two-variable data table right in your sheet (Alt+A,W,T) • Goal Seek — solve for the input that makes a target cell hit a specific value (Alt+A,W,G) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO IT'S FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, accounting — anyone who learned Excel first and now lives in Google Sheets. If you've ever hit Alt+E,S,V in Sheets and watched nothing happen, XLKeys is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ XLKeys runs entirely inside Google Sheets. Spreadsheet data is only accessed when you trigger a feature that needs it (tracing, Goal Seek) — never in the background, and never sent to our servers. See the privacy policy for details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRICING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Free forever: all 60+ formatting, paste special, and navigation shortcuts • Pro: Trace Precedents/Dependents, Auto-Color, Goal Seek, and Sensitivity Tables • Every signup gets 30 days of Pro free — no credit card required Built by someone with a finance background, for people who live in spreadsheets. Questions or feature requests? Visit xlkeyz.com.