Open Excel with Ctrl+Alt+X
August 17, 2021 - by Bill Jelen

Problem: I love keyboard shortcuts in Excel. Why isn’t there a keyboard shortcut to open Excel?
Strategy: You can assign a keyboard shortcut to Excel.
Go to your Start menu and find the icon for Excel. Right-click the icon and choose Properties. In the properties dialog, there is a Shortcut Key box. Click in the box and type Ctrl+Alt+X. Click OK.

You can now launch Excel with Ctrl+Alt+X. You might wish to add other shortcuts, such as Ctrl+Alt+N for Notepad++, and so on.
This article is an excerpt from Power Excel With MrExcel
Title photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash