BobBridges, "mousing away" - what a great expession!

Unfortunately Ctrl-K does nothing in my Excel2013 and I can't customize the shortcuts as the appropriate button on the Customize Ribbon menu in Options is missing (in comparison to Word which has this feature).

Concerning ctrl+insert, I forgot about it .. and might start to utilize it now and again as I am still not always sure whether I pressed C or V ..

On the whole your method would be useful in my case as I prefer using the keyboard solely without switching now and again to "mousing". If you could help me with Ctrl-K non-functioning, I would readily start using it. Thanks. And thanks for replying.