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Use Ctrl-Shift-Z to redo actions
Does anybody know how to make it so I can use Ctrl-Shift-Z to perform the redo action in Excel? It was... doable in Word, but Excel is proving to be a much more difficult challenge. I've tried workin...
You really can’t rebind Excel’s built‑in Redo shortcut. Excel simply doesn’t expose that level of keyboard customization, and forcing it through external tools or registry tweaks turns into a brittle hack. Those kinds of workarounds tend to break after updates, behave inconsistently across workbooks, or cause conflicts with other applications. At that point, you’re spending more time maintaining the workaround than you ever would just using the native shortcut.
Ctrl+Y may not be the shortcut you wish Excel used, but it’s the one the application is designed around. Once your muscle memory adapts, it becomes effortless, and you avoid the long‑term headaches that come with trying to bend Excel into something it wasn’t built to do.