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Oct 29 2013 Top 5 Excel Shortcuts for the Mac. Excel Shortcuts; center align, delete, Excel for Mac, filter, font size, Mac Excel shortcuts, sum formula; Leave a comment; Many of you are transitioning to Excel for the Mac, and have asked us what our favorite Excel Mac shortcuts are. 222 Excel shortcuts for Windows and Mac Windows shortcuts in dark gray on the left, Mac shortcuts in white on the right. See also: The 54 Excel shortcuts you really should know and Excel shortcuts on the Mac.
Although Microsoft did not include many keyboard shortcuts in their Office Suite for Mac, you can make your own for any app including Office apps. To do so:. Go to System Preferences and then Keyboard. Select the shortcuts tab. You can add any shortcut there either system-wide for any application or application specific by clicking the Plus button +, selecting Excel and recording your key combination. In this case you must type in AutoFit Selection just as it appears on the menu in Excel.
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(Format Column AutoFit Selection) You can choose any key combination that suits your fancy.
The F4 key in Excel for Windows is normally a shortcut key to Repeat the last command. In Excel for Mac the F4 key is assigned to the Pastecommand, which is driving me crazy so I decided to do something about it. Default Excel F4 Keyboard Assignment in Excel for Mac There are four keyboard shortcuts assigned to the Paste command in Excel for Mac — Shift+Del, Control+V, F4, and Command+V. Overkill, don’t you think? So I’m thinking the F4 button can be reassigned with no problems, unless, of course, you’re in the habit of using the F4 key for the Paste command.
Reassign the F4 button in Excel for Mac. Select the Tools menu, and click Customize Keyboard. In the Categories: box select Edit.
In the Edit box, select Redo. Select the Press new shortcut key: box. Press the keyboard combination fn+F4 key (or just F4 key if you’ve ). Click Add.
Click OK to reassign the Paste command to the Redo command.