Make Excel X more like Excel 98

[Stephen Altobello]

I finally moved into the world of Microsoft Office X and overall, I like it more
than Office 98--except some of the quick commands and shortcuts
misdsing from Excel. How can I get back the wonderful Apple-B & Apple-K,
which I used constantly. Also, Cutting-and-pasting from another source
now makes my paste copy into a single column. I'll prob. get used to the
new way (which isn't so new anymore) bu I'd love to keep my old habits if
possible.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I finally moved into the world of Microsoft Office X and overall, I like it
more
than Office 98--except some of the quick commands and shortcuts
misdsing from Excel. How can I get back the wonderful Apple-B & Apple-K,
which I used constantly. Also, Cutting-and-pasting from another source
now makes my paste copy into a single column. I'll prob. get used to the
new way (which isn't so new anymore) bu I'd love to keep my old habits if
possible.

Most of the CMD(Apple)-<letter> shortcuts that changed from XL98 were
replaced with CTRL-<letter>, so Delete is now, by default, CTRL-k. This
was done to make the shortcuts align with WinXL shortcuts.

You can either get used to them, or redefine your keyboard shortcuts.
For instance, Choose Tools/Customize... Click the Keyboard button. Find
the Delete command and enter CMD-k in the "new shortcut key" textbox,
then click Add. You'll be told that you're overriding an existing
shortcut.

Note that in Panther, you can also define an OS-level keyboard shortcut
for any menu command in any application. Choose System
Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts. Scroll to the bottom
of the shortcut list and enter a new shortcut under Application Keyboard
Shortcuts.