Tag Archive | "Excel"

How To Edit Cell With A Keyboard Shortcut In Mac Excel

Monday, February 8, 2010

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I was doing up several worksheets in Excel, and I was finding it incredibly disruptive to my workflow to edit a cell. I had to take my hands off my keyboard, reach out to my mouse, and double-click the cell before I could edit it. So I went searching, and turns out that there’s a [...]

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How To Quickly Zoom In/Out In Mac Office (Word, etc)

Sunday, October 25, 2009

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In Windows, you’d use Ctrl+Scroll Up or Scroll Down to zoom in or out of your Microsoft Office documents. I tried doing this in Mac Word, but Ctrl+Scroll does nothing. I tried all the other modifier keys, such as Option, Shift, Command, Fn, but to no avail. Then I tried mixing it up, and I [...]

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Insert a Tick or Check in Excel / Word

Sunday, January 25, 2009

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Quick tip! You can insert a check or a tick in Excel or any other application with any keyboard by switching to the Webdings font and typing “a”. Tags: alt, check, checkmark, Excel, Microsoft, office, powerpoint, Tick, unicode, Windows, Word

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How To Insert a Tick in Excel, Word, Etc

Sunday, August 10, 2008

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Sometimes in programs like Excel when you can’t find a shape that you want, a possible workaround is to use a font. Webdings and Wingdings offer shape-based fonts, so you get shapes instead of the usual characters. For instance, if you want to get a tick in Excel, you can use the “a” character of [...]

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