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Building Excel-style keyboard sequences for Google Sheets without turning the extension into a pile of DOM selectors

Dev.to•Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 07:45 PM•2 min read

I recently shipped Spex , a Chrome extension that adds Excel-style sequential keyboard shortcuts and contextual KeyTips to Google Sheets. The user-facing interaction is intentionally small: press Alt / Option see the keys available at that moment continue the sequence run the selected Sheets com...

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