Microsoft announces new keyboard shortcuts in Excel for iPad

Thanks to native keyboard support, more people are now using Apple iPad as their go-to computing device. In order to deliver a great experience for these users, Microsoft yesterday announced new keyboard shortcuts on the Excel iPad app. These new keyboard shortcuts will bring the Excel authoring experience on iPad closer to macOS. Keyboard shortcuts are now available for navigation, editing formulas, and format and edit data.

Microsoft is introducing these 13 new shortcuts in the July release.

Action	Shortcut
Move to the next sheet in the workbook	Option + Right Arrow
Move to the previous sheet in the workbook	Option + Left Arrow
Apply outline border	+ Option + 0
Remove outline borders	+ Option + Hyphen
Hide Column(s)	+ 0
Unhide Column(s)	Shift + Control+ Left parenthesis ()) Or Shift +  + Left parenthesis ())
Hide Row(s)	Control + 9
Unhide Row(s)	Shift + Control+ Right parenthesis ())
Toggle the formula reference style between absolute, relative, and mixed	+ TOr  + 4
Insert the AutoSum formula	Shift + + T
Calculate open workbook	+ =

Microsoft will add more shortcuts in the coming months. You can download the latest Excel app from App Store.