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CommonQuestion
Copper Contributor
Jun 21, 2019

Unable to customize keyboard shortcuts in excel 365

Did microsoft remove this function? They had it in 2016.

 

Thanks.

  • SteveRawcliffe's avatar
    SteveRawcliffe
    Copper Contributor

    CommonQuestion Workaround: Record whatever you were wanting to do as a macro. You can then assign a keyboard shortcut to that.

    Pretty ridiculous that you can no longer assign a keyboard shortcut directly, but fairly typical Redmond idiocy.

    • Michael_J_SL's avatar
      Michael_J_SL
      Copper Contributor

      I created a macro in Excel, assigned CTRL-r (which isn't in the list of shortcuts), BUT, it doesn't seem to override the Excel assigned key. Is there a method to tell Excel to use mine and not theirs?

      • nabilmourad's avatar
        nabilmourad
        MVP

        Michael_J_SL 

        CTRL + R is a built in shortcut in Excel for Copying to the Right. if you have a column of Text or numbers and you select an equal range in the column just to its right side., hit CTRL + R to copy to the right column.

    • SergeiBaklan's avatar
      SergeiBaklan
      MVP

      Magdoulin 

      Nothing changes, customized shortcuts for Word have been for years and exist now - as in post you mentioned

      There were no customized shortcuts in Excel and I don't think they'll be out of the box.

      • TexasIndia's avatar
        TexasIndia
        Copper Contributor

        SergeiBaklanIt's not there now. I used it for years. The article references where it should be, but it's gone.

  • CommonQuestion 

    Haytham Amairah 

     

  • Haytham Amairah's avatar
    Haytham Amairah
    Silver Contributor

    CommonQuestion

     

    To my knowledge, the keyboard shortcuts in Excel cannot be customized unless you use some third-party tools!

    Please check out this link.

     

    By the way, this option is available in Word not in Excel according to this article.

    How did you customize it in Excel 2016?

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