Mac Microsoft Office Alt Shortcut
An ongoing shortfall on the Mac (for me) has always been the lack of Alt-key control of the menus in Office--in Word, PowerPoint and especially Excel. Since I can't take 'no' for an answer I thought I'd try this forum, although Apple.com doesn't seem to have a place for non-Apple apps for the Mac.
Apr 02, 2015 To do a Paste Special Values, in Windows you would use the ALT shortcut ALT, E, S, V and ENTER. ALT, E, S bring up the Paste Special menu (Excel 2003 version) and V moves the radio button to the Values selection. On mac, the Paste Special shortcut is CTL+COMMAND+V, and then to move the radio button to Values you hit COMMAND+V again. In Office 2013 and Office 2010, most of the old Alt key menu shortcuts still work, too. However, you need to know the full shortcut. For example, press Alt, and then press one of the old menu keys E (Edit), V (View), I (Insert), and so on. A notification pops up saying you're using an access key from an earlier version of Microsoft Office. Jul 15, 2018 Step 1, Open the Start menu on your computer. Click the Start icon in the lower-left corner of your desktop to open the Start menu.Step 2, Right-click the Office program you want to create a shortcut for. Find the Office program you want to shortcut, and right-click on its name or icon. This will open your options on a pop-up menu.Step 3, Hover over More on the right-click menu. A sub-menu will pop up with more options. MS Excel Shortcuts Keys, when starting with Microsoft Excel, knowing a few ms excel shortcuts keys will reduce your work time and make it easier to work on Excel. Using the mouse to do all the task reduces your productivity. Here are the most used Excel shortcuts to use when you just begin working with Microsoft. Shortcut key: Don't use in content for a general audience. Use keyboard shortcut instead. In content for developers or content about customizing the UI, it's OK to distinguish between an access key and a shortcut key. An access key is a letter or number that users select to access UI controls that have text labels. For example, the F in Alt+F. Many users find that using an external keyboard with keyboard shortcuts for Skype for Business helps them work more efficiently. For users with mobility or vision disabilities, keyboard shortcuts can be easier than using the touchscreen, and are an essential alternative to using a mouse. Apr 02, 2015 There are many alternatives to the alt-key shortcuts used in Mac Excel, but I agree overall Mac Excel is lacking in the functionality when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. However, for most every day users of Excel, 95% of what you can do in Window.
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I am looking for Alt-key navigation for the Mac versions of Windows Office (at least as available through Windows Office 2003 versions). If you've never used Excel on a Windows machine, you will likely misunderstand this request (based on my review of Google search results). In Windows Excel 2003, you can access any menu command through the keyboard in a very efficient way.
A lot of Mac people respond to Alt-key questions with the standard shortcuts (Command 'O' is open) or thinking the problem is that there is user confusion because there is no Alt key ('it's the Option or Command key'). All this is known and used often. I'm also not interested in the Accessibility feature (Ctrl-F2) which is very slow compared to direct access since you're essentially replicating a mouse action, rather than an actual keyboard shortcut. This question is application specific (Office); I know about OS system shortcuts (and use those often as well).
What I am interested in is leveraging keyboard commands, since although not GUI and oh-so-not-nouveau- cool, are the old fashioned way expert users get work done really fast. When you need to pound in data, keeping your hands on the keyboard is always faster than typing, the mouse/eye, then hands back to typing, then mouse/eye.
What I am looking for is some trickery, macro, add-in, something that replicates being able to hold down the 'Alt' (option or command or control on the Mac) key and type TOG (for example), which will instantly execute toggling grid on or off (Tools/Option/Grid). WAO (window/arrange/horizontal), and so on through tens or hundreds of very frequently used menu combinations. In addition to just being faster, this approach is faster if you get 'mouse fatigue' (eye strain or wrist/hand strain or both), especially on multiple and large displays at high resolution. With Windows Alt key navigation, you can navigate by touch typing even if you're using an infrequently used menu combination by holding down the Alt key and reading the menu, seeing the shortcut (underlined letter), typing it, and moving on to the next submenu (or the next work task).
Granted, Microsoft's new Ribbon interface (started on Office 2007 on Windows) seems to indicate the world thinks more GUI is needed, but I've yet to find an expert user who doesn't hate it. Fortunately in 'Ribbon' versions of Office, you can still type most Alt key shortcuts from memory. They're not documented anymore since there are no 'menus' with the Ribbon. Sort of the world's largest collection of Easter Eggs.
I'm bilingual Windows/Mac. I've always had Macs at home, and mostly Windows at work (except for two companies.. one of which was Apple!). I'm resurrecting this issue because I'm really kind of aggravated that when I have serious Excel work to do for my personal life, I do it on my work computer because the mouse/menu approach is so much slower.
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Mac Microsoft Office Alt Shortcut Key
So, isn't there some Add-in that can simulate the keyboard shortcuts at least partial Windows users know and love (and are really better.. it's ok guys, sometimes one can learn from the dark side).
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