Customize Keyboard
 

Why is there no button in the Excel Options to customize the keyboard (as
there is in Word Options and as there was for Excel XP and 2K)? I get
massive amounts of data from which I delete non-pertinent records. I
simplified this by adding a keystroke combo to delete a row. Now I have to
type Alt-H-D-R. Two extra keystrokes per instance x 1000 instances per day =
NOT FUN.

Customize Keyboard
 

You could create macros that do what you want and assign nice keyboard shortcuts
to those macros.

Or you could use builtin shortcuts.

Shift-spacebar will expand the selection's area with the activecell to the
entirerow.
then
ctrl-hyphen

to delete the selection.

Or you could add a couple of icons to your favorite toolbar/QAT.
In xl2003
tools|Customize|commands tab|Edit category
drag Delete Row (or Delete column) to your favorite toolbar.

There's a couple of Insert options under the Insert Category, too.



TychaBrahe wrote:

Why is there no button in the Excel Options to customize the keyboard (as
there is in Word Options and as there was for Excel XP and 2K)? I get
massive amounts of data from which I delete non-pertinent records. I
simplified this by adding a keystroke combo to delete a row. Now I have to
type Alt-H-D-R. Two extra keystrokes per instance x 1000 instances per day =
NOT FUN.

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Dave Peterson

Customize Keyboard
 

To clarify.

No version of Excel has had the capability nor the option of customizing
keyboards.

I don't know how you did it in Excel XP and 2K but I would assume through VBA.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:19:00 -0700, TychaBrahe
wrote:

Why is there no button in the Excel Options to customize the keyboard (as
there is in Word Options and as there was for Excel XP and 2K)? I get
massive amounts of data from which I delete non-pertinent records. I
simplified this by adding a keystroke combo to delete a row. Now I have to
type Alt-H-D-R. Two extra keystrokes per instance x 1000 instances per day =
NOT FUN.