Found out yesterday that ctrl+shift+enter does something different in Excel than I thought

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Honestly, what finally clicked for me was when I stopped trying to memorize all the shortcuts and just started using the formula evaluation tool step by step. I literally traced through an array formula with it, watching each part calculate out. That visual let me actually see what ctrl+shift+enter was doing behind the scenes instead of just guessing. Tbh, once I understood it's basically telling Excel to treat the formula as a multi-cell operation, the whole thing made way more sense. Ngl, it took like three separate tries but now I use it all the time for summing across conditions.

clark.iris2mo ago

100% me too. I always thought it was just a fancy way to enter a formula, turns out it's way more useful for array stuff. That one tip changed how I look at a lot of Excel tricks.

cameron_owens496d ago

I read that the trick is to think of it like a batch operation for multiple cells at once.