Many of you are transitioning to Excel for the Mac, and have asked us what our favorite Excel Mac shortcuts are. While our keyboard covers show the 20 most commonly used shortcuts, there are definitely a few gems that really make using Excel on the Mac that much better than the PC. That’s right…I said it…Excel for the Mac is better than the PC!
Go to 'Press new shortcut key' and type in a new shortcut. I used Command + Shift + v. And, click on 'Add'. Close the window. Now i can just use the normal copy ( Command + c) the cells from which i want to copy the formatting. Then go the cell where i want to paste the format and hit the keyboard shortcut (Command + Shift + v). While in debug mode, you can 'Step Into' your VBA code in Excel 2011. You can choose to 'Step Into' your code in Excel 2011. What this means is that you will step through each line of code in your current procedure as well as step into the code of any procedures that are called by the current procedure.
This post covers keyboard shortcuts specifically on Excel For Mac 2011. You might also want to check out these 45 Insanely useful Mac OSX Keyboard Shortcuts to save you over an hour each week to find quicker ways to navigate around your Mac in general. Keyboard Shortcuts for Excel on Windows and Mac One way of speeding up Excel is to integrate keyboard shortcuts in your workflow. Excel experts hardly use a mouse at all, because using a mouse takes more time and is often not precise. There are no built-in keyboard shortcuts for Zoom in Mac Excel. You can use the Zoom box on the Standard Toolbar; An instance of that device can be added to other toolbars; You can add Zoom In/Zoom Out/Zoom to One Page to toolbars; Custom keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to those commands as well.
Here are the Top 5:
1) Increase/Decrease Font Size – SHIFT+COMMAND+. (increase)SHIFT+COMMAND+, (decrease)
The reason why this is the best Mac Excel shortcut is because it doesn’t even exist on the PC! Quickly increase and decrease the font size without going through the Format Cells menu or clicking on the pesky font size drop-down in the toolbar.
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2) Delete Everything in Selected Cells – FN+DELETE
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Why is it so hard to delete stuff in Excel for the Mac? Press fn+delete and you’ll actually delete everything in your selection and the delete button actually works like it’s intended to work.
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3) Create Filter – SHIFT+COMMAND+F
You have a list of data and you need to create a filter. Instead of going through the regular toolbar, navigate to the first row with the field names in your list and hit shift+command+f. Simple.
4) Center Align Data – COMMAND+E
You have a bunch of cells with data and they are all weirdly aligned. Some are right-aligned and some are left-aligned. The reason why this shortcut is so powerful is because it’s SO EASY to use! There is no equivalent on the PC; the PC shortcut is ALT, H, A, C! Definitely a lot simpler to hit command+e in my opinion!
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5) Autosum a Bunch of Numbers – SHIFT+COMMAND+T
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We’ve all had to type =SUM(blah blah blah) before to sum a bunch of numbers. This handy shortcut let’s you create the sum automatically without having to type in the formula! Just go to the empty cell below a bunch of numbers you want to sum and hit shift+command+t and Excel automatically knows which cells you want to sum!
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In conclusion, Excel for the Mac is pretty powerful…
Which Excel for Mac shortcuts do you use every day? Which Excel shortcuts on the PC do you wish existed on the Mac?