ShortieCuts brings Excel's Alt Key Tips to Google Sheets. Press Alt and an on-screen Key Tips overlay shows letter hints, just like Excel's ribbon, so Alt sequences like Alt H O I work the way you remember. 530 shortcuts across Sheets, Slides and Docs, plus Trace Precedents and Goal Seek.
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Try it here: press Alt (or Option) on this page.
One Extension, Three Apps
233 Shortcuts
Excel ALT key-tips work as typed: press Alt, then the same letters. Plus the Excel tools analysts miss most in Sheets.
148 Shortcuts
PowerPoint-style ALT sequences for building decks: arrange and align shapes, insert objects, manage slides and present.
149 Shortcuts
Word-style ALT sequences for writing and formatting: fonts and styles, lists and alignment, inserting tables and page breaks, comments and word count.
Using ShortieCuts is simple: just install the extension from the Chrome Web Store, and you're ready to go. The extension automatically detects when you're using Google Sheets, Slides or Docs and enables the matching Excel, PowerPoint or Word ALT-key shortcuts, as well as the other features it offers.
Install ShortieCuts from the Chrome Web Store and pin it next to the address bar.
Click the ShortieCuts icon, sign in with Google and click "Begin 14-day Free Trial". No credit card needed.
Press Alt (Option on Mac) and key-tips appear. Type the same letters you would in Excel, PowerPoint or Word, like HOI to autofit a column in Sheets.
New, Rolling Out This Week Versions 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 are rolling out through the Chrome Web Store this week, so a fresh install may not have these yet.
Colors a selection the banker way: typed-in numbers blue, formulas black, links to other tabs or files green. Text and blanks are left alone, and only the font color changes. Colors are adjustable in Settings.
Alt + M + A
Give any Alt key-tip command in Sheets, Slides or Docs your own key sequence. Clashes are caught before saving, and keys export to a file and sync with your Chrome profile. The shortcuts themselves still need the trial or a plan.
Settings → Custom Keys
Restyle a chart in one go: Banker, Clean or Print built in, or save any chart's look as your own preset and apply it to another chart from the presets window.
Alt + J + C + 1 / 2 / 3Alt + J + C + P
We figured out a way to Trace Dependents and Trace Precedents in Google Sheets using the same keyboard shortcuts as Excel. It even works across tabs and lets you return to the previous cell using F5 just like Excel. No more getting lost when auditing formulas.
Ctrl + [Ctrl + ]F5
Freezes frames in a single stroke rather than having to freeze the row and column separately. Google Sheets (by default) freezes panes in the down/right direction rather than up/left like Excel. We fixed that too.
Alt + W + F + F
Our Goal Seek works just like Excel's. Find the perfect number fast.
Alt + A + W + G
Used to formatting with Training the Street Macros? Those superpowers are now on Google Sheets. You're welcome. (Mac-only. PC blocks us on this feature.)
Within the color palette, we added an Excel-style contrast ring around the color to make it easier to see which one you're selecting during keyboard-only navigation.
These are all total strangers other than one.
"It might be an understatement to say how transformative this extension can be to heavy Excel users."
"Anyone with some financial modeling background who uses Google Sheets should be more than happy to pay the monthly subscription."
"All serious excel users who have been waiting to move to Sheets will appreciate this extension."
Karan B. "After discovering ShortieCuts, I spent the entire weekend migrating all of my office 365 trackers / files to google sheets."
"I use this daily. Can't imagine life without it."
ShortieCuts
1.5%
monthly churn
Stripe Median
4%
monthly churn
Churn is the share of paying subscribers who cancel each month. Only 1.5 in 100 ShortieCuts subscribers cancel in a typical month, vs 4 in 100 for the median subscription business in Stripe's benchmark.
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Each person adds ShortieCuts from the Chrome Web Store, signs in with Google, and presses Alt in Sheets, Slides or Docs.
Yes, with ShortieCuts, a Chrome extension that brings Excel's Alt key sequences to Google Sheets. Google Sheets has no ribbon, so Alt sequences do nothing on their own; with ShortieCuts you press Alt (Option on Mac) and type the same letters you use in Excel. It supports 233 Excel sequences in Sheets, plus 148 PowerPoint shortcuts in Google Slides and 149 Word shortcuts in Google Docs (530 in all).
Yes. When you press Alt (Option on Mac) in Google Sheets, ShortieCuts shows an on-screen Key Tips overlay with letter hints for the next key, like Excel's ribbon KeyTips. Type the letters to drill down, for example H, then O, then I to autofit a column. F10 switches the overlay between show, ghost and hide.
With ShortieCuts installed, press Alt, then H, O, I in Google Sheets to autofit the selected columns' width, exactly as in Excel (Option, then H, O, I on a Mac). Without an extension, Google Sheets ignores Alt H O I; the built-in route is double-clicking the column's right border, or right-clicking the column header and choosing Resize column, then Fit to data.
ShortieCuts makes Alt E S V work in Google Sheets: press Alt, then E, S, V to paste values only, as in classic Excel. Alt H V V does the same from the modern ribbon, and Alt H V F and Alt H V T paste formulas or transpose. Google Sheets' own shortcut for paste values is Ctrl + Shift + V (Cmd + Shift + V on Mac).
ShortieCuts adds Excel's tracing keys to Google Sheets: Ctrl + [ selects the cells a formula refers to (Trace Precedents), including on other tabs, and Ctrl + ] finds the formulas that refer to the active cell (Trace Dependents). F5 opens a Traces list to jump back. Google Sheets has no trace command of its own; tracing is a Pro feature and is included in the free trial.
ShortieCuts is built for analysts who learned on Excel and now model in Google Sheets. It keeps Excel's Alt sequences, adds Trace Precedents/Dependents (Ctrl + [ and Ctrl + ]), Goal Seek (Alt A W G) and F4 to repeat the last command, and covers PowerPoint and Word shortcuts in Slides and Docs. Install it, open a model you know, and work the way you do in Excel.
ShortieCuts is worth it if you know Excel's Alt shortcuts and spend real time in Google Sheets. It costs $7.99/month or $69.99/year, and the 14-day free trial needs no credit card, so you can test it on your own models first. It is rated 5.0 out of 5 on the Chrome Web Store, and monthly subscriber churn is about 1.5%.
ShortieCuts has a free 14-day trial of every feature, with no credit card needed. After the trial, Pro is $7.99/month or $69.99/year, and teams get volume discounts automatically at checkout.
Yes, it is safe: ShortieCuts never reads or stores the content of your Google Sheets, Slides or Docs, because shortcuts run in your browser. It signs in with your Google email only and never asks for access to your Google Drive or files. It keeps only your account email (for the subscription) and counts of which ShortieCuts shortcuts you use.
ShortieCuts is an alternative to SheetCuts and xlkeyz with 233 Excel Alt sequences, against 116 listed by SheetCuts and 76 by xlkeyz on their public pages as of 12 Oct 2026. It also includes Trace Precedents/Dependents and Goal Seek (not seen on SheetCuts' pages) and Word shortcuts for Google Docs (offered by neither). The full side-by-side is at shortiecuts.com/compare.
Yes. ShortieCuts works in Google Chrome on Mac and Windows; on a Mac you press Option instead of Alt, and the trace keys use Control (Control + [ and Control + ]). It runs in Chrome only today.
Yes. ShortieCuts was last updated on the Chrome Web Store on 12 Oct 2026 (version 1.2.5), and new versions with Auto-Color, Custom Keys and Chart Format Presets are rolling out now. Questions go to info@shortiecuts.com.
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