Learn keyboard shortcuts for Excel Filter drop down menus to quickly sort and filter your data. Turn filters on/off, search menu, clear filters, and more. Not the kind of behavior that occurs in Excel for Windows. How to Delete Cell and Range Contents in Excel for Mac. The trick is to remember that fn+Delete is really a keyboard shortcut to the Delete key on a Mac. Then the world rights itself and the planets align. Frustration abates.
/ Top 5 Excel Shortcuts for the Mac Oct 29 2013 Top 5 Excel Shortcuts for the Mac.,. Many of you are transitioning to Excel for the Mac, and have asked us what our favorite Excel Mac shortcuts are. While our 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 rightI said itExcel for the Mac is better than the PC!
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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.
2) Delete Everything in Selected Cells – FN+DELETE 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. 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. 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! 5) Autosum a Bunch of Numbers – SHIFT+COMMAND+T 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! 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?
I mean, this is Excel we’re talking about here. Hitting the Delete key is supposed to delete the contents of the active cell, for cryin’ out loud. In Excel for Mac it does that, but the cursor also gets stuck inside the cell in edit mode. You have to hit the enter key to finish deleting the contents, but this act also moves the active cell to the next cell down. And if you’ve selected a range and hit the Delete key, the active cell contents are deleted and the cursor is stuck inside the cell in edit mode. You have to hit the Enter key, which does nothing but take you to the next cell.
The range contents are still there, with the exception of the active cell. Not the kind of behavior that occurs in Excel for Windows. How to Delete Cell and Range Contents in Excel for Mac The trick is to remember that fn+Delete is really a keyboard shortcut to the Delete key on a Mac.
Then the world rights itself and the planets align. Frustration abates. You’ve finally found the magic. Your mojo is back! Watch this 54 second video to see what I’ve been babbling about for the past 454 words. I know this is an old thread, but I just spent the last few weeks assembling a list of Windows and Mac Excel shortcuts. Right now, the list is just over 200.
shortcuts: Seems like every time I look at the list, I find a problem to fix, but it’s a start. Hope it’s useful for those who need to use both platforms. I took a pretty granular approach, so some shortcuts are near duplicates (e.g. Selecting columns in a table and selecting columns in the worksheet are listed separately, but the behavior is a little different). Phil Paradis Note that there is a Windows-style “Delete” key on the full-size Mac keyboards, in it’s usual place to the left of the End key.
(It’s labeled with a funny-looking symbol instead of “Delete”, and is referred to in most documentation as “Forward Delete”.) This key functions exactly as Delete on a Windows keyboard and Fn-Delete on the laptop/wireless Mac keyboards. The full-size model also has a 10-key number pad for those who prefer them, though some of the operator keys are misplaced relative to the PC layout which can take some getting used to.