Whereas the Alt key’s most popular function is to control the menus in Windows programs, the Option key on the Mac is a “miscellaneous” key that triggers secret functions and special characters.įor example, when you hold down the Option key as you click the Close or Minimize button on a Macintosh window, you close or minimize all open desktop windows. Still, these two keys aren’t exactly the same. For example, in Microsoft Word, the keyboard shortcut for the Split Document Window command is Alt+Ctrl+S in Windows, but Option-⌘-T on the Macintosh. In many situations, keyboard shortcuts that involve the Alt key in Windows use the Option key on the Mac. This is the closest thing the Mac offers to the Windows Alt key.
On North American Mac keyboards, a key on the bottom row is labeled both Alt and Option. Here’s your cheat sheet to the menu keyboard symbols: represents the Shift key, means the Option key, and refers to the Control key.Īlt key. Unfortunately, they’re represented in the menu with goofy symbols instead of their true key names. Regards, Bob J.Mac keyboard shortcuts are listed at the right side of each open menu, just as in Windows. If you're interested in doing so, this link may help get you started:Īlternatives and Similar Software - AI: Artificial Intelligence or Automated Idiocy? Please mark Yes/No as to whether a Reply answers your question. In order to do anything more extensive you'll need to use 3rd party keyboard remapping utility. What Ms Fang fails to realize, though, is that the OS X feature is restricted to mapping key combinations for commands which are explicitly listed in the menu structure of a program.įorward Delete is not one of them. Regardless of any good intentions, none of those features have appeared in the program.Īt any rate, one substitute is to use the OS X feature suggested by Dora Fang. Room for the addition of some of the newer, more powerful features of Win Excel. Ostensibly, it was argued by Microsoft that the removal was done to make even after 30 years of depending on the capability. My guess is that the developers figured that if Win Excel users didn't have it Mac users didn't need it.
However, Microsoft decided unilaterally that the capability should be removed effective with the introduction The y could be assigned to virtually any command in the program. In prior versions it was possible to create custom keyboard shortcuts in Excel.
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