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Accelerator Keys

Accelerator Keys

Use Windows alt-key shortcuts in Mac Excel

4.8•24 reviews•

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Mac users of Excel have struggled with the lack of alt-key shortcuts for the past 10 years. I built this app using macOS' new accessibility features to solve this. Check it out @ https://acceleratorkeys.com.

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msqwhq
Maker
Hi PH! I built Accelerator Keys last year to scratch my own itch. I'd picked up alt-key shortcuts when working in finance - after I switched to a Mac, I realised these weren't available on Mac Excel, and decided to fix that. There were a few threads on Reddit and Microsoft forums about this (links below), so it seems I'm not the only one who has wanted this for a while. Learned a lot about macOS accessibility features while building this. Hope the PH community finds it useful! Forum links: * https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/c... * https://answers.microsoft.com/en...
Austin
I bought this last fall after completing the free trial and loved it! I spent countless hours searching reddit pages, forums, and various websites trying to find a solution to the Accelerator Keys problem on Mac. This has been fantastic and works exactly as I needed it too! Only issue, I had was it would sometimes mess up on my dual monitors, but that was fixed by a patch in the last update so now everything works perfectly! I think this is a super elegant solution as it runs in the background and only works when you have excel opened! I'd say it has 90% of the shortcuts that Windows does, with more being added all the time and custom requests available as well. Overall I'd give it a 9/10!!
Pukitta Chunsuttiwat
Hi. I'm so glad I found your product. I just switched from Windows to Mac and I used Excel a lot. The lack of the Alt+ navigation is driving me crazy. I'm trying it out the free trial of your product. It looks pretty good. One problem I found however, is that the Alt+A for the data ribbon does not work. Like it takes me to the Data ribbon but I cannot further navigate through the buttons in that ribbon. Will you please check this issue?
msqwhq
Maker
accidentally deleted my previous comment, but for future visitors to this thread, this was fixed in Accelerator Keys. thanks for the purchase Pukitta!
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Enoch
•2 reviews

Finally found this! Alt shortcuts in Excel has been my only complaint for Macs, and with this everything is just perfect.

Jeff
•1 review

Total gamechanger - transition to Mac would not be possible without a tool like this. Excel remains primary tool of analysis, and these shortcuts allow for fast/efficient work

Stas Karchevskiy
•1 review

Submit multiple tickets asking to move the license to a new machine (I don't have access to the old one) - no response; charged me another month of subscription for a product I can't use. Good job, keep it up and don't worry about chargebacks. UPDATE: Received response and refund after 6 months so I'm updating my review. The product works as described, but at this point I'm running Office on Parallels which seems more natural than native MacOS Office.

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