Press the Alt key again to disable accelerators, and set focus to the worksheet. This will select the active tab on the Ribbon and display accelerators for navigation. To enable accelerators, press the Alt key. Unfortunately, this is a Windows-only feature, so it's not available on a Mac. The main attraction of the ribbon, from a shortcuts point of view, is accelerator keys.Īccelerator keys let you run most commands in Excel from the keyboard, which is especially handy for commands that don't have a dedicated shortcut. Each time you use the shortcut, you'll toggle the ribbon. In this video, we'll look at shortcuts that let you work with the Ribbon.įirst, because the Ribbon takes up quite a lot of space, you may want to collapse it when you don't need it.
