In Excel, you can be in a cell at then end of a column and hit the autosum button. It will automatically add the cells until there is an empty cell above it. I hope that makes sense - it saves a bunch of time, because you don't have to type in '=sum( etc'.
/ Top 5 Excel Shortcuts for the Mac Oct 29 2013 Top 5 Excel Shortcuts for the Mac.,. Many of you are transitioning to Excel for the Mac, and have asked us what our favorite Excel Mac shortcuts are. While our show the 20 most commonly used shortcuts, there are definitely a few gems that really make using Excel on the Mac that much better than the PC.
That’s rightI said itExcel for the Mac is better than the PC! Here are the Top 5: 1) Increase/Decrease Font Size – SHIFT+COMMAND+. (increase) SHIFT+COMMAND+, (decrease) The reason why this is the best Mac Excel shortcut is because it doesn’t even exist on the PC! Quickly increase and decrease the font size without going through the Format Cells menu or clicking on the pesky font size drop-down in the toolbar.
2) Delete Everything in Selected Cells – FN+DELETE Why is it so hard to delete stuff in Excel for the Mac? Press fn+delete and you’ll actually delete everything in your selection and the delete button actually works like it’s intended to work. 3) Create Filter – SHIFT+COMMAND+F You have a list of data and you need to create a filter. Instead of going through the regular toolbar, navigate to the first row with the field names in your list and hit shift+command+f. 4) Center Align Data – COMMAND+E You have a bunch of cells with data and they are all weirdly aligned.
Some are right-aligned and some are left-aligned. The reason why this shortcut is so powerful is because it’s SO EASY to use! There is no equivalent on the PC; the PC shortcut is ALT, H, A, C! Definitely a lot simpler to hit command+e in my opinion!
5) Autosum a Bunch of Numbers – SHIFT+COMMAND+T We’ve all had to type =SUM(blah blah blah) before to sum a bunch of numbers. This handy shortcut let’s you create the sum automatically without having to type in the formula! Just go to the empty cell below a bunch of numbers you want to sum and hit shift+command+t and Excel automatically knows which cells you want to sum!
In conclusion, Excel for the Mac is pretty powerful Which Excel for Mac shortcuts do you use every day? Which Excel shortcuts on the PC do you wish existed on the Mac?
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I was eventually asked to create a pivot table and within the hour my fears were gone. With Microsoft Excel for Mac, creating a pivot table is easily achieved in just a few steps using the toolbar. No formulas or shortcuts necessary! Step 1: The original data. For this example our data for the pivot table will be in Sheet 1. Step 2: Select the cell where you want the pivot table to appear. We are going to use A1 on Sheet2.
Step 3: Select the Data tab from the toolbar in Microsoft Excel. Step 4: Click the small arrow next to the PivotTable icon and select the Create Manual PivotTable option. Step 5: The Create PivotTable dialog box will appear. Here we must select the original data table on Sheet1 for the “Use a table or a range in this workbook” Location: box. To do so, click on Sheet1 and highlight your table: This will auto-populate the information into the Create PivotTable dialog box. Step 6: Now the Create a PivotTable box will close and a PivotTable builder will appear.
In the upper portion labeled Field name, select the fields you wish to add to your pivot table. I have selected Order Number, Product, Unit Price, and Quantity. I then moved Order Number from the Values box to the Row Labels, because I do not need a value for the Order Number. Whenever you are satisfied with your pivot table, that should be changing in the background as you modify the options in the PivotTable builder, click the X to close the builder dialog box. Step 7: Edit the cell with Row Labels to the correct terminology: In my example that would be Order Number. And there you have it! A quick and simple way to make beautiful pivot tables for Microsoft Excel on Mac.
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