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.
Alt-Codes can be typed on Microsoft Operating Systems: First make sure that numlock is on, Then press and hold the ALT key, While keeping ALT key pressed type the code for the symbol that you want and release the ALT key. Unicode codes can not be typed. Codes can be used within HTML, Java.etc programming languages.
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.
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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.
See solution in other versions of Excel:. Question: In Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac, how do I get the Developer tab to display in the toolbar at the top of the screen? The Developer tab is the toolbar that has the buttons to open the VBA editor and create Form/ActiveX Controls like buttons, checkboxes, etc. Answer: To display the Developer tab, click on the Preferences under the Excel menu at the top of the screen. When the Excel Preferences window appears, click on the Ribbon icon in the Sharing and Privacy section. In the Customize section, check Developer in the list of tabs to show.
Then click on the OK button. Now you should see the Developer tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen. All of the Developer tab option groups should be available - Visual Basic, Add-Ins, and Form Controls (see below).