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By default, your hotkeys will be Alt + 4. Many of the old threads have been read thousands of times. Thanks again for saving me from having to search further!
If somebody could help me out that would be great. I don't care about obtaining detail about which value matches which. Supposing you want to combine two cells in your Excel sheet, A2 and B2, and both cells have data in them.
Keyboard shortcuts in Excel for Mac - If somebody could help me out that would be great. I need all countries names in one cell against each code thanks.
As the Answer in that thread stated, there is no built-in keyboard shortcut for that purpose. However, you cannot assign custom keyboard shortcuts in Excel 2016. The other replies in that conversation apparently were from users of Excel for Windows... If you don't mind some personal advice :- most experienced users of Excel recommend avoiding the use of merged cells altogether. That method maintains the structural integrity of the worksheet. Bob, that's not a helpful answer at all. The question was about a Word table, but your answer is about Excel. Your comment about merged cells not being useful is irrelevant. If we need to merge cells, then we need to merge cells, and Word provides a way to do it. What's more, there is a shortcut key that opens the Split Cells dialog box. In Word versions before 2007, it was a single keystroke. Starting with 2007, that keystroke still works, but it is not shown anywhere in the interface. Every so often, my fingers remember where it is, and I press it. But most of the time, I have to use four key presses to bring it up Alt-release, J, L, P. Or a move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse, then b do 1 or 2 mouse clicks to display the Table Layout options, then c click Split cells, then d move my hand back to the keyboard. I never owned a Palm Pilot, but friends of mine did. Supposedly, at the height of its popularity there was a person on every project team at Palm whose job it was to count the stylus inputs required to accomplish every task. Their objective was to everything with just four presses. I sure wish Microsoft had put someone in charge of this task during the development of the Office Suite since 2006. My reply was to the January 21 question tacked on to the original posting by hollyneilson. Why the Community moderator retained the reference to Word in the Subject I have no idea, but this conversation has been in the Mac Excel forum since the day it was posted. These Communities are not intended to serve as 'chat rooms'. What I wrote is that merged cells are problematic in worksheets, and once again it was in reference to Excel. Word tables are not constructed or used in the same way, nor are they subject to the same issues. Further, it seems that you do not realize that this a Community for Mac Office, but your references appear to pertain to the Windows versions... And as for Palm, where are they now? Just now I modified the question and changed it to reflect her intent to ask about Excel instead of Word in order to avoid future confusion about the topic. In order to avoid even more confusion, I won't split off Steven's question about Microsoft Word, mainly because I have no idea which version of Word Steven has. Steven, if you would be kind enough to start an entirely new question or questions about Microsoft Word, that would be appreciated. I think it highly unlikely that today you would be using any version of Word that existed in 2012. Be sure to include the version number you are inquiring or commenting about. If you are using Word on a Mac, go to the Word menu and choose About Word to find the version number. I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft.
Then it gets really strange - when I have a cell highlighted and press any key to input text, it gets duplicated. Use the CONCATENATE function to combine two or multiple cells Users who feel more comfortable with Excel formulas, may like this way to combine cells in Excel. For example, you may want to combine several cells for a better data presentation or structure. But if I type anything else numbers, letters, or symbols then it types 2 instances of the key every time, yet when I hit enter, nothing changes in the cell. Images larger than 600px wide or 1000px tall will be reduced. Merge End If Application.
