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F2 in Mac

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, F2 on the Mac changes the screen brightness on MacBooks, but when you are in Excel, you want F2 to be brightness and F4 to be change cell references from absolute and so forth. With the F8-F12 this isn’t an issue, you can unmap those to get to F9 which is recalc by [...]

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Mac Excel Shortcuts

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

It turns out that some of the commands in Mac Excel can’t actually be rebound. For instance, Allison, wants to have these work. Here is the list and how to get them Mac Excel. For Mac Excel 2001 we have a list.
Control + page up. This maps to Ctrl-Right which is find the next [...]

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Mac OS X for Windows Users

July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’m actually kind of amazed there are so few books and other resources that help a Windows user navigate the Mac. In the dawn of time, I worked on a project that made Excel understandable to Lotus 1-2-3 users, but given there are just a few small things, I sometimes wonder why Apple just doesn’t [...]

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