XLKeys - Excel Shortcuts for Google Sheets

Tracking since Apr 28, 2026.

Changelog

• May 29, 2026
  description

  XLKeys brings all the Excel Shortcuts you know and love to Google Sheets by enabling excel quality
  keyboard shortcuts and analytical tools including Alt Keys, Formatting shortcuts, Trace Precedents/Dependents, Sensitivity Tables, and more. 
  
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  KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
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  The full set of Excel formatting and navigation shortcuts, working natively in
  Sheets:
  
  • Number formats — %, $, date, time, accounting, scientific, exponential
  • Borders — top, bottom, outside, all, thick outside, double, none
  • Alignment, indent, merge, text rotation, freeze panes, gridlines
  • Font color and fill color cycling
  • Insert / delete rows and columns
  • Paste Special — values only, formulas only, formatting, transpose, widths,
    everything-but-borders
  • Filters, decimals, and dimension controls
  
  Every shortcut is fully customizable in the Options page.
  
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  FORMULA AUDITING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  The features financial modelers actually need but Sheets doesn't ship with. Makes Google Sheets feel like Excel with FactSet/Macabacus plugged right in
  
  • Trace Precedents — see every cell a formula reads from, including across
    sheets, and jump to any of them
  • Trace Dependents — see every cell that depends on the selected cell
  • Auto Color-Code — instantly highlight formulas (black), hardcoded inputs
    (blue), same-sheet refs (purple), and cross-sheet refs (green)
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ANALYSIS TOOLS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Excel's classic What-If toolkit, finally on Sheets:
  
  • Goal Seek — solve for the input value that makes a target cell hit a
    specific result
  • Sensitivity Tables / What if Analysis — fill an Excel-style two-variable data table
  
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  PRIVACY
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  XLKeys runs entirely inside Google Sheets. We only access your spreadsheet
  data when you trigger a feature that needs it (formula tracing, Goal Seek,
  etc.) — never in the background. No spreadsheet content is ever sent to our
  servers. See the privacy policy for full details.
  
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  PRICING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Free to install. Premium analytical features (Goal Seek, Sensitivity Tables,
  What-If, Trace Precedents/Dependents) require a paid license — start with a
  free trial right from the extension popup.
  
  Built by a finance / modeling background for people who live in spreadsheets.
  Questions or feature requests? Reply to your install email or visit our site.

  XLKeys brings Excel like Shortcuts to Google Sheets by enabling
  keyboard shortcuts and analytical tools including Alt Keys / HotKeys, Formatting shortcuts, Trace Precedents/Dependents, Sensitivity Tables, and more. 
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  The full set of Excel formatting and navigation shortcuts, working natively in
  Sheets:
  
  • Number formats — %, $, date, time, accounting, scientific, exponential
  • Borders — top, bottom, outside, all, thick outside, double, none
  • Alignment, indent, merge, text rotation, freeze panes, gridlines
  • Font color and fill color cycling
  • Insert / delete rows and columns
  • Paste Special — values only, formulas only, formatting, transpose, widths,
    everything-but-borders
  • Filters, decimals, and dimension controls
  
  Every shortcut is fully customizable in the Options page.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  FORMULA AUDITING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  The features financial modelers actually need but Sheets doesn't ship with. Makes Google Sheets feel like Excel with FactSet/Macabacus plugged right in
  
  • Trace Precedents — see every cell a formula reads from, including across
    sheets, and jump to any of them
  • Trace Dependents — see every cell that depends on the selected cell
  • Auto Color-Code — instantly highlight formulas (black), hardcoded inputs
    (blue), same-sheet refs (purple), and cross-sheet refs (green)
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ANALYSIS TOOLS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Excel's classic What-If toolkit, finally on Sheets:
  
  • Goal Seek — solve for the input value that makes a target cell hit a
    specific result
  • Sensitivity Tables / What if Analysis — fill an Excel-style two-variable data table
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PRIVACY
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  XLKeys runs entirely inside Google Sheets. We only access your spreadsheet
  data when you trigger a feature that needs it (formula tracing, Goal Seek,
  etc.) — never in the background. No spreadsheet content is ever sent to our
  servers. See the privacy policy for full details.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PRICING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Free to install. Premium analytical features (Goal Seek, Sensitivity Tables,
  What-If, Trace Precedents/Dependents) require a paid license — everyone gets a 30 day Pro trial automatically on signup - no card required. 
  
  Built by a finance / modeling background for people who live in spreadsheets.
  Questions or feature requests? Visit our site or contact us.

• May 22, 2026
  description

  XLKeys turns Google Sheets into a power-user spreadsheet by bringing the Excel
  keyboard shortcuts and analytical tools you actually use back to the browser —
  no more reaching for the mouse.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  The full set of Excel formatting and navigation shortcuts, working natively in
  Sheets:
  
  • Number formats — %, $, date, time, accounting, scientific, exponential
  • Borders — top, bottom, outside, all, thick outside, double, none
  • Alignment, indent, merge, text rotation, freeze panes, gridlines
  • Font color and fill color cycling
  • Insert / delete rows and columns
  • Paste Special — values only, formulas only, formatting, transpose, widths,
    everything-but-borders
  • Filters, decimals, and dimension controls
  
  Every shortcut is fully customizable in the Options page.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  FORMULA AUDITING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  The features financial modelers actually need but Sheets doesn't ship with:
  
  • Trace Precedents — see every cell a formula reads from, including across
    sheets, and jump to any of them
  • Trace Dependents — see every cell that depends on the selected cell
  • Auto Color-Code — instantly highlight formulas (black), hardcoded inputs
    (blue), same-sheet refs (purple), and cross-sheet refs (green)
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ANALYSIS TOOLS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Excel's classic What-If toolkit, finally on Sheets:
  
  • Goal Seek — solve for the input value that makes a target cell hit a
    specific result
  • Sensitivity Tables — fill an Excel-style two-variable data table
  • What-If — model scenarios and compare outcomes
  
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  EXPORT
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  • One-key export of any selection as a clean image, ready to paste into Docs,
    Slides, Notion, or email
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PRIVACY
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  XLKeys runs entirely inside Google Sheets. We only access your spreadsheet
  data when you trigger a feature that needs it (formula tracing, Goal Seek,
  etc.) — never in the background. No spreadsheet content is ever sent to our
  servers. See the privacy policy for full details.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PRICING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Free to install. Premium analytical features (Goal Seek, Sensitivity Tables,
  What-If, Trace Precedents/Dependents) require a paid license — start with a
  free trial right from the extension popup.
  
  Built by a finance / modeling background for people who live in spreadsheets.
  Questions or feature requests? Reply to your install email or visit our site.

  XLKeys brings all the Excel Shortcuts you know and love to Google Sheets by enabling excel quality
  keyboard shortcuts and analytical tools including Alt Keys, Formatting shortcuts, Trace Precedents/Dependents, Sensitivity Tables, and more. 
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  The full set of Excel formatting and navigation shortcuts, working natively in
  Sheets:
  
  • Number formats — %, $, date, time, accounting, scientific, exponential
  • Borders — top, bottom, outside, all, thick outside, double, none
  • Alignment, indent, merge, text rotation, freeze panes, gridlines
  • Font color and fill color cycling
  • Insert / delete rows and columns
  • Paste Special — values only, formulas only, formatting, transpose, widths,
    everything-but-borders
  • Filters, decimals, and dimension controls
  
  Every shortcut is fully customizable in the Options page.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  FORMULA AUDITING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  The features financial modelers actually need but Sheets doesn't ship with. Makes Google Sheets feel like Excel with FactSet/Macabacus plugged right in
  
  • Trace Precedents — see every cell a formula reads from, including across
    sheets, and jump to any of them
  • Trace Dependents — see every cell that depends on the selected cell
  • Auto Color-Code — instantly highlight formulas (black), hardcoded inputs
    (blue), same-sheet refs (purple), and cross-sheet refs (green)
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ANALYSIS TOOLS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Excel's classic What-If toolkit, finally on Sheets:
  
  • Goal Seek — solve for the input value that makes a target cell hit a
    specific result
  • Sensitivity Tables / What if Analysis — fill an Excel-style two-variable data table
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PRIVACY
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  XLKeys runs entirely inside Google Sheets. We only access your spreadsheet
  data when you trigger a feature that needs it (formula tracing, Goal Seek,
  etc.) — never in the background. No spreadsheet content is ever sent to our
  servers. See the privacy policy for full details.
  
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PRICING
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Free to install. Premium analytical features (Goal Seek, Sensitivity Tables,
  What-If, Trace Precedents/Dependents) require a paid license — start with a
  free trial right from the extension popup.
  
  Built by a finance / modeling background for people who live in spreadsheets.
  Questions or feature requests? Reply to your install email or visit our site.

• May 5, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://docs.google.com/*, https://sheets.googleapis.com/*

  https://docs.google.com/*, https://sheets.googleapis.com/*, https://xl-keys.vercel.app/*

Permissions & access

Permissions

activeTabstoragescriptingidentity

Host access

https://docs.google.com/*, https://sheets.googleapis.com/*, https://xl-keys.vercel.app/*

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