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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / February 2006How to assign all the Windows shortcuts onto Mac Excel?
An example: To delete a column on Windows, I use the keyboard shortcut Cntrl+EDC (meaning, hold Control, type E for EDIT menu, then D for DELETE, then C for COLUMN). I would like to set Excel for Macintosh (using OS-X (10.4.4) to enable this function for all the keyboard shortcuts in this way. Is it possible to set a Preference or use some other method of enabling this on Excel for Mac without having to program them individually? > An example: To delete a column on Windows, I use the keyboard shortcut > Cntrl+EDC (meaning, hold Control, type E for EDIT menu, then D for DELETE, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Is it possible to set a Preference or use some other method of enabling this > on Excel for Mac without having to program them individually? No, and you can't really do the menus that way, nor use multiple-key shortcuts. You can use the System Accessibility options to operate the menus, but it won't be the same (for instance, you need to use arrow keys to select a menu in the main menu bar). You might try assigning individual single-key-with-modifiers shortcuts to commands using Tools/Customize (for instance, perhaps CMD-OPT-C for Delete Column). It's more efficient than using the menu method. Many thanks for the prompt reply. Your reply appears at odds with this info on the Mactopia website: [[ Customizable keyboard shortcuts. Have it your way. Set the keyboard shortcuts to function as they did in Excel 98, or customize your preferences ]] In any case, it's a pity that Microsoft didn't include this in Excel/Mac. It's a real timesaver on the Windows Excel. > > An example: To delete a column on Windows, I use the keyboard shortcut > > Cntrl+EDC (meaning, hold Control, type E for EDIT menu, then D for DELETE, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > No, and you can't really do the menus that way, nor use multiple-key > shortcuts. And if you don't object to a little use of the mouse, you can, for example, Ctrl+Click in a column, then type D,C,Return. Regards |:>) > In any case, it's a pity that Microsoft didn't include this in Excel/Mac. > It's a real timesaver on the Windows Excel. It's probably largely a matter of what you're used to. I almost never use menu commands, so it's hard for me to remember sequential key sequences. OTOH, I *really* wish MS would implement customizable single-key shortcuts in WinXL. The biggest thing for me, however, is that I wish MS would have stuck with the original keyboard shortcuts, instead of changing them when they ported XL from Mac to Windows. Even after 15 years, I still get them wrong when I work in WinXL... |
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