What is equal to alt key on mac laptop windows#
With Windows Alt key navigation, you can navigate by touch typing even if you're using an infrequently used menu combination by holding down the Alt key and reading the menu, seeing the shortcut (underlined letter), typing it, and moving on to the next submenu (or the next work task). In addition to just being faster, this approach is faster if you get "mouse fatigue" (eye strain or wrist/hand strain or both), especially on multiple and large displays at high resolution. WAO (window/arrange/horizontal), and so on through tens or hundreds of very frequently used menu combinations. What I am looking for is some trickery, macro, add-in, something that replicates being able to hold down the "Alt" (option or command or control on the Mac) key and type TOG (for example), which will instantly execute toggling grid on or off (Tools/Option/Grid).
When you need to pound in data, keeping your hands on the keyboard is always faster than typing, the mouse/eye, then hands back to typing, then mouse/eye.
What I am interested in is leveraging keyboard commands, since although not GUI and oh-so-not-nouveau- cool, are the old fashioned way expert users get work done really fast. This question is application specific (Office) I know about OS system shortcuts (and use those often as well). I'm also not interested in the Accessibility feature (Ctrl-F2) which is very slow compared to direct access since you're essentially replicating a mouse action, rather than an actual keyboard shortcut. In Windows Excel 2003, you can access any menu command through the keyboard in a very efficient way.Ī lot of Mac people respond to Alt-key questions with the standard shortcuts (Command "O" is open) or thinking the problem is that there is user confusion because there is no Alt key ("it's the Option or Command key"). If you've never used Excel on a Windows machine, you will likely misunderstand this request (based on my review of Google search results). I am looking for Alt-key navigation for the Mac versions of Windows Office (at least as available through Windows Office 2003 versions). Since I can't take "no" for an answer I thought I'd try this forum, although doesn't seem to have a place for non-Apple apps for the Mac. This is similar to a long-time macOS feature called Exposé or Mission Control.Just want to resurface this from a different users postĪn ongoing shortfall on the Mac (for me) has always been the lack of Alt-key control of the menus in Office-in Word, PowerPoint and especially Excel. If you press Command+Tab, highlight an app’s icon, then push the up or down arrow, you will launch a mode that shows thumbnails of all that app’s open windows on the screen. There are other things you can do with the Command+Tab switcher. Exposing Open Window Thumbnails with Command+Tab Once you’ve highlighted the app you want to switch to, release Command+Tab and the app will be brought into the foreground. Or you can press Command+Tab and use the left- and right-arrow keys to select an app. You can also hold down Command+Shift and tap “Tab” to move the selection cursor in the opposite direction-from right to left. If you hold the Cmd key down while tapping the Tab key, the cursor will move between the icons from left to right. A row of app icons will appear in the center of your screen. If you’d like to quickly switch between open apps on a Mac, press Command+Tab. This feature has been in Windows since Windows 2.0 in 1987, and macOS has a similar shortcut. In the world of Windows, many users are familiar with a feature often called “Task Switcher” that allows you to quickly switch between open applications by pressing Alt+Tab.