Excel Shortcut of the week – Save Spreadsheet (CTRL-S)

You probably have at one time or another faced an Excel crash, while working on an important project with a tight schedule for example. Autosave is certainly a useful feature and document recovery tool has improved a great deal with time.

However, as always, it’s better to rely on plain-old manual saving. In order to speed things up, I suggest you learn to use CTRL – S to save your documents. You’ll notice that it’s much faster than using the mouse due again to fewer hand movement. I probably use it over one hundred times a day and it has even become an automatism when I pause for any reason like answering the phone, thinking of my model or even the next sentence in my blog post.

Once again, it is important to note that this shortcut is available in many programs, including Word and PowerPoint.