As in other programs, this command restores the last change you made; in Excel, you can undo (or redo) many steps, taking your spreadsheet all the way back to the way you found it. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Z.

When you’ve done something that Excel can do over and over again, you can do so just by selecting the Repeat command. If you’ve just used the Undo command, the Repeat menu item turns into Redo, which undoes the undo you just did. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Y.

Cuts or copies to the clipboard, or copies to the Office Scrapbook, the selected cell, cells, or object. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-X, -C, and Shift-⌘-C.

Pastes what you’ve just copied to the clipboard or to the Office Scrapbook. Paste Special lets you exercise some control when pasting, by pulling up the Paste Special window, where you can apply formatting. It also lets you link or embed the clipboard contents. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-V, Shift-⌘-V.

Pastes the clipboard contents into Excel as a hyperlink, either to a Web site or to a Word document. (Requires that you’d first copied an Internet address or some text out of a Word document.)

Fills the selected range of cells in the manner you specify in the Fill submenu. There are several different kinds of fills:

The Clear menu empties out a cell or cells; although you might not know it, there are several ways to clear cells. Here are your choices:

Deletes the selected cells or object from the sheet. If you’re deleting cells, Excel will ask you whether you want to shift cells up or to the left, or remove entire rows or columns.

Deletes the currently active sheet from the workbook. Be sure about it; you can’t undo this action.

Moves the selected sheet or sheets to a different location in the same workbook or another workbook. It opens the Move or Copy window, in which you can specify where you want to move the sheet and whether or not a copy is made.

Opens the Find panel that you can use to search for a string in formulas, values, or comments. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-F.

Looks for a string of text and replaces it with another.

Opens the Go To window, which you can use to go to a specific cell. By clicking the resulting Special button, you can also use it to select a specific type of cells, such as those containing formulas or constants.

Pulls up a window showing information about every link in the currently active document. If the document doesn’t have any links to other documents, this option is dimmed.

Lets you edit an embedded object, such as a Microsoft Graph object or a Microsoft Organization Chart object. This menu’s name changes to reflect the kind of object that’s embedded here, and it lets you either edit an embedded object or convert one OLE object to a different type.