u/headcleaverblitz

Hi everyone!

Am an analyst, consultant by training (lots of excel shortcuts), and have been using Mac since 2016 (Air -> M1 Pro with Apple Silicon).

Whenever I had to use Excel (my company is on Office 365), I used to cringe as I used to try out shortcut keys out of muscle memory and everything used to take just too much time (using mouse/trackpad to do things on Mac Excel is a nightmare!)

Plus I noticed a lot of my friends (who have been analysts as well), actively staying out of Mac purchase decisions (even if Macs have better longetivity, great coding, and minimal lag after 10+ yrs), only because they need their Microsoft suite (mostly Excel) to work.

Is there any solution to this?

Hi everyone!

Am an analyst, consultant by training (lots of excel shortcuts), and have been using Mac since 2016 (Air -> M1 Pro with Apple Silicon).

Whenever I had to use Excel (my company is on Office 365), I used to cringe as I used to try out keys out of muscle memory and everything used to take just too much time (using mouse to do things on Mac Excel is a nightmare!)

Plus I noticed a lot of my friends (who have been analysts as well), actively staying out of Mac purchase decisions (even if Macs have better longetivity, great coding, and minimal lag after 10+ yrs), only because they need their Microsoft suite (mostly Excel) to work.

I tried doing this -> Go to Mac Excel settings -> Accessibility and change the hotkey to Option to get the shortcut like experience (Not everything will work on this btw like paste special values, which is something I use every 2nd minute).

So, I built an app to solve the same (it has few paid users) - which makes Excel on Mac work like it is working on Windows. Don't know if the reddit community will find value in this though.

PS: It also works with 3rd layer dialog boxes which the inbuilt tooltip does not work with.