/ 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! 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!

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. This article itemizes the keyboard shortcuts for Excel for Mac. Many of the shortcuts that use the Ctrl key on a Windows keyboard also work with the Control key in Excel for Mac. What-if analysis feature of MS Excel The What-if analysis feature of MS Excel helps in. What is the difference between Excel Windows and Mac? Hot Key Excellence has a high expertise in teaching Excel shortcuts through gamification.

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! Excel formula for adding. 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?