Alt Enter In Excel For Mac

An 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. Since I can't take 'no' for an answer I thought I'd try this forum, although Apple.com doesn't seem to have a place for non-Apple apps for the Mac.

These are the steps you may use to insert the umlaut letters into your Excel worksheets. As you have noticed, there are several different methods to type the umlaut letters for both Windows and Mac. On Windows, using the Umlaut alt codes work everywhere including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and even on browsers. If you use Office:Mac Excel, you may from time to time need to capture multiple lines of information into a cell. If you come from the Windows world, you will quickly come to realize that Alt+Enter doesn’t work. If you want to insert a new line in Excel for the Mac, select the cell, type your first line and press Alt+Cmd+Enter. In Excel, pressing ‘Enter’ moves the cursor to the next cell. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to enter in Excel for Mac and Windows easily using a shortcut. Also, we’ll give you step-by-step instructions on how to enter in an Excel cell when you’re using the ‘CONCATENATE’ function. With Kutools for Excel’s excellent Combine feature, you can also concatenate data in each column with Alt + Enter by several clicks in Excel. Please do as follows: Kutools for Excel - Includes more than 300 handy tools for Excel. Full feature free trial 30-day, no credit card required!

I am looking for Alt-key navigation for the Mac versions of Windows Office (at least as available through Windows Office 2003 versions). If you've never used Excel on a Windows machine, you will likely misunderstand this request (based on my review of Google search results). In Windows Excel 2003, you can access any menu command through the keyboard in a very efficient way.

A 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'). All this is known and used often. 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. This question is application specific (Office); I know about OS system shortcuts (and use those often as well).

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. 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 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). WAO (window/arrange/horizontal), and so on through tens or hundreds of very frequently used menu combinations. 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. 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).

Granted, Microsoft's new Ribbon interface (started on Office 2007 on Windows) seems to indicate the world thinks more GUI is needed, but I've yet to find an expert user who doesn't hate it. Fortunately in 'Ribbon' versions of Office, you can still type most Alt key shortcuts from memory. They're not documented anymore since there are no 'menus' with the Ribbon. Sort of the world's largest collection of Easter Eggs.

I'm bilingual Windows/Mac. I've always had Macs at home, and mostly Windows at work (except for two companies... one of which was Apple!). I'm resurrecting this issue because I'm really kind of aggravated that when I have serious Excel work to do for my personal life, I do it on my work computer because the mouse/menu approach is so much slower.

So, isn't there some Add-in that can simulate the keyboard shortcuts at least partial Windows users know and love (and are really better... it's ok guys, sometimes one can learn from the dark side).

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How to concatenate columns with Alt + Enter in Excel?

Let’s say you have a list of data in Excel, but now you want to concatenate the list with separating by Alt + Enter, how could you handle it? Here I will share two solutions to solve this problem.

Concatenate columns with Alt + Enter by formula

This method will guide you to concatenate data in each column with the Alt + Enter by a formula in Excel. Please do as follows:

1. Select a blank cell you will place the concatenation result, type the formula =A1 & CHAR(10) & A2 & CHAR(10) & A3, and drag the AutoFill Handle right to other cells as you need.
Note: In the formula =A1 & CHAR(10) & A2 & CHAR(10) & A3, A1, A2, and A3 are cells you will concatenate.

2. Keep the formula cell selected, and click Home > Wrap Text.

Now you will see each column is concatenated with Alt + Enter. See screenshot:

Concatenate columns with Alt + Enter by Kutools for Excel

With Kutools for Excel’s excellent Combine feature, you can also concatenate data in each column with Alt + Enter by several clicks in Excel. Please do as follows:

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1. Select the columns you will concatenate, and click Kutools > Combine. See screenshot:

2. In the Combine Columns or Rows dialog box, please:
(1) Check Combine rows option in the To combine selected cells according to following options section;
(2) Check the New line option in the Specify a separator section;
(3) Check one of options as you need in the Options section. In my case, I check the Delete contents of combined cells option;
(4) Click the Ok button.

Now you will see data in each column is concatenated with Alt + Enter. See screenshot:

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