Select Smart Item -> Keystrokes, which will add a new macro entry in the Hidden section. Click somewhere in the Hidden section (or in any other section where you’d like to put the command), then click the Plus sign at the bottom left of Butler’s interface. To do this in Butler, select Butler -> Customize from Butler’s menu, and then make sure you’re on the Configuration tab. You’ll have to modify the instructions, of course, to match the program you’re using, but it’s a pretty simple technique-the macro program will be used to send a Control-U to Excel when you press F2. To make this work, you’ll need some sort of program that supports macros I’m going to use Butler, but you should be able to use iKey, Keyboard Maestro, or QuicKeys, or any similar program. With a bit of help from a third-party program, though, you can achieve the same end result-make F2 edit the current cell in Excel (2004 or 2008) on the Mac. This section of the Excel Guide offers all shortcuts you need to open, navigate between, and control all of these options. Unfortunately, you won’t find the “edit this cell” command listed in Excel’s keyboard customization section, so there’s no apparent way to change the shortcut. Each workbook acts as its own separate window on your PC or Mac, while each worksheet acts as a tab within a workbook with separate cells. You’ll probably find quite a few that you didn’t know about.) After many years of using a PC in my prior job, I found the Control-U shortcut not only hard to remember, but harder to type. Let’s take a look at assigning or changing a shortcut. Hello Excellers, time for some back to basics today with Excel Macros. Make if realy easy to run an Excel macro by assigning a shortcut key to it.

(If you’d like to see all of Excel’s keyboard shortcuts, open Help -> Excel Help, then type keyboard shortcuts in the search box, and then select Excel Keyboard Shortcuts in the results box. Learn how to easily assignor change a macro shortcut key. On the Mac, the equivalent keyboard shortcut is Control-U, as F2 is assigned to cut the contents of the current cell. On the PC, you can edit the current cell in place by simply pressing F2. (You could do it the other way around, of course, setting your PC up to match your Mac.) This works well for most shortcuts, but there’s one in particular that I use all the time that’s immune to this solution: the keyboard shortcut for ‘edit this cell.’

Using the View -> Customize Toolbars & Menus menu item (in Excel 2008 View -> Toolbars -> Customize Toolbars/Menus in Excel 2004), you can change the shortcuts on your Mac to match those on your PC. If you use Excel on both the Mac and the PC, you’re probably aware that there are numerous differences between the two platforms’ keyboard shortcuts.

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