Keyboard shortcut to select all text in a cell in Excel Is there a keyboard shortcut key to select all the text in the current cell in Excel, if you are in the process of editing the cell?
The quickest way I've found is the following:
1) tab/select the cell, 
2) hit backspace to delete the contents of the cell
3) type Cntrl+Z to undo delete

When the undo function puts the text back into the cell, all text within that cell is automatically highlighted.  Then you can just type Cntrl+C to copy text only.  

I found that I needed to highlight all text in a cell in order to be able to paste it back inside another excel sheet whose cells already had other text that I had to leave intact.  

Hope this helps!