Open Excel, click Tools from the Excel ribbon and select “Excel Add-Ins.” Do you see QI Macros listed as an add-in? This is because Microsoft has released an update package for Excel 2016 for Macs, that causes Excel to crash, when running QI Macros. The possibility to customize the toolbar or ribbon and adding custom buttons. Excel 2016 Mac is the worst 'upgrade' I have ever purchased.
Most of the blog posts that deal with customizing the toolbars on Microsoft Office products are written for PC users. Now that MS Office has become the standard for office applications on the Apple Macintosh OS, too, let’s discuss how to. Please note that these instructions are for the Office 2016 version of the software. Add/Remove Commands to the Ribbon Toolbar To access the configuration screen for the Ribbon toolbar, open a new workbook in Excel and then go to the Preferences menu and select Ribbon and Toolbar.
The screen that comes up is of the double list box variety. If you’re unfamiliar with this type of screen, basically you have two boxes with buttons in between them that have arrows facing in opposite directions. You can move items in either of the lists back and forth to the other by selecting an item from the list you want to move the command from and then hitting the arrow button of the direction you wish to move it to. You can also change the order in which the commands appear by dragging them up or down the list as you wish. There are also drop down list controls at the top of each box so that you can select which category in the toolbar that you want the command to come from or go to.
This gives you the most flexible interface for customizing the ribbon toolbar any way you desire. Below is an example image of the Ribbon Toolbar configuration screen. Adding/Removing Toolbar Tabs or Groups By default, when you open the toolbar configuration screen, it opens with a list of the main tabs in the right-hand box and a list of available commands in the left-hand box. To access the other tabs, you can select another category from the Customize the Ribbon drop down list. If you want to create your own tabs or groups that contain a custom list of commands, you can create a new tab by clicking the + button at the bottom of the Ribbon Customization list box and selecting New Tab or New Group from the context menu that appears. If you decide that there are too many tabs and they are cluttering up your user experience, then you can select the tab you want to go away and then select the – button at the bottom of the Ribbon Customization list box. If you want to rename the tab or group, select it in the list and then can click the gear button to the right of the – button.
This will give you the settings context menu that will allow you to make changes. Quick Access Toolbar Customization If you wish to configure the Quick Access Toolbar, which is the one at the very top left-hand corner of the application, you need to select the Quick Access Toolbar option on the right of the toolbar selection bar. Then you can select from the commands list box on the left and add any commands that you use consistently. The Quick Access Toolbar is designed to house commands that you can access quickly without having to hunt for them inside other toolbars, tabs, or groups. This toolbar is for things like saving and printing and other regularly used file commands. You can even create custom macros and commands and add them to the Quick Access Toolbar or Ribbon Toolbar if you like. Being able to customize the Excel toolbar on a Mac is a little different than on a PC, but has made great strides in making the applications more consistent, robust, and easier to configure for both platforms.
They’ve worked on making them look and behave similarly, too, since now most people use both platforms. This is very different from 10 years ago when most people were in either one camp or the other.
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If you're used to working with Excel on Windows, one of the most confusing aspects of using Excel on a Mac is shortcuts. Even basic shortcuts you've been using for years in Windows may not work as you expect. After a few problems, you might wind up thinking that Mac shortcuts are 'totally different' or somehow 'broken'. In reality, Excel shortcuts on the Mac are quite capable, you just have to understand and adjust to certain differences. In this article, I'll walk you through the key differences you need to be aware of to work productively with Excel shortcuts on a Mac. Also see: // 3 minute video 1. Special symbols One of more confusing aspects of keyboard shortcuts on the Mac are the symbols you'll see for certain keys.
For example, the Command key is abbreviated as ⌘, the Control key with ⌃, and the option key as ⌥. These symbols have a long history on the Mac, and you'll find them in menus everywhere. The Mac Finder – abbreviations appear in all applications, not just Excel You'll see these symbols in menus across all applications, so they're not specific to Excel. There really aren't too many symbols, so I recommend that you bite the bullet and memorize them. The table below shows some example shortcuts with a translation. Command Shortcut Translation New workbook ⌘N Command N Save As ⌘⇧S Command Shift S Toggle ribbon ⌘⌥R Command Option R Paste Special ⌃⌘V Control Command V Select row ⇧Space Shift Space 2. Function keys Like their counterparts in the Windows world, Mac keyboards have function keys.
These keys sit at the top of the keyboard and are labeled F1 to F12 on standard keyboards and F13, F14 and higher on extended keyboards. Standard Mac keyboard with 12 function keys As you know, function keys are uses for many shortcuts in Excel. For example, you can use F1 for help, F7 for spelling, and shift + F3 to insert a function. But if you try these shortcuts directly on a Mac, they don't work. By default, Function keys on a Mac control the computer itself, things like screen brightness, volume, video pause and play, and so on. This means that if press only the function keys in Excel, you'll end up controlling the Mac, and not Excel. To make function keys work like you expect in Excel, you need to add a key: the function or fn key. You'll find the fn key in the lower left on your keyboard.
Here are a few examples: Command Windows Mac New chart F11 fn F11 Calculate worksheets F9 fn F9 Open Spelling F7 fn F7 Evaluate formula F9 fn F9 If you really hate using the fn key, you can change this behavior by changing a preference at System Preferences Keyboard. Here you can check a box that will that will change function key behavior to work like 'standard function keys'. If you do this, however, note that you won't be able to use function keys for things like Brightness, Volume, etc.
Unless you hold down the fn key. In essence, this setting reverses behavior so that you need to use fn to control the Mac. Personally, I like using the function keys to control the computer, so I leave this setting alone, and just the fn key when needed in Excel. Missing keys Another difference that may trip you up on a Mac is certain keys are missing.
Unless you're using an extended keyboard, keys like Home, End, backspace, Page up, and Page down are nowhere to be found. This is a problem, because many of these keys are used in Excel shortcuts. The solution is to use specific substitutions, as shown in the table below.
Windows Mac equivalent Home fn arrow left End fn arrow right Page Up fn arrow up Page Down fn arrow down Screen right fn option arrow down Screen left fn option arrow up Move to Last cell fn control arrow right Move to first cell fn control arrow left Delete fn Delete Backspace Delete The substitutions let you perform the same actions you can do in Windows. However, T hey can make some shortcuts seem complicated on a Mac because you have to use more keys. Note: If you're using an extended keyboard on a Mac, you don't need to worry about substitutions, since you'll have keys for Home, End, Page up, etc. Extended keyboards have all the keys 4. Ribbon shortcuts In the world of shortcuts, perhaps the most painful difference on a Mac is a lack of ribbon shortcuts. In Excel on Windows, you can use so called accelerator keys to access almost every command in Excel using only your keyboard.
This doesn't matter much when you're performing an action that has a dedicated shortcut (i.e. Control + B for bold), since dedicated shortcuts are faster than ribbon shortcuts.
But when you want to trigger an action that doesn't have a dedicated shortcut (like sort, hide gridlines, align text, etc.), it hurts a bit. Excel ribbon in Windows with accelerator keys visible. No equivalent on the Mac! Just different Finally, some Excel shortcuts are just plain different on a Mac. For example, the shortcut for Edit Cell in Windows is F2, and on a Mac, it's Control + U. The shortcut to toggle absolute and relative references is F4 in Windows, while on a Mac, its Command T.
For a complete list of Windows and Mac shortcuts, see. If you want to see more Excel shortcuts for the Mac in action, see our our. These videos come from our. Whenever we use a shortcut, we show both the Windows and Mac version.
Excel 2016/Office 365 With the introduction of Excel 2016 on the Mac, Microsoft has started to adjust Mac shortcuts to be more aligned with Windows. As of February 2016, many Windows shortcuts can be used in Excel 2016/Office 365. For example, you can use fn + F4 to toggle between absolute and relative references, Control + Shift + L to toggle a filter on and off, etc.
So far, all the shortcuts that have been adjusted to match Windows shortcuts remain backward compatible with previous Mac only shortcuts. For example while fn F4 toggles references on the Mac, the old shortcut Command + T still works as well.