Moving the Cell Cursor in Excel 2010 Spreadsheets Excel 2010 offers a wide variety of keystrokes for moving the cell cursor to a new cell. When you use one of these keystrokes, the program automatically scrolls a new part of the worksheet into view, if this is required to move the cell pointer. The following table summarizes these keystrokes, including how far each one moves the cell pointer from its starting position. Keystroke Where the Cell Cursor Moves Right arrow or Tab Cell to the immediate right. Left arrow or Shift+Tab Cell to the immediate left. Up arrow Cell up one row. Down arrow Cell down one row.