(Pick a key that you use very infrequently. Change the Microsoft Office Excel Menu Key setting to something other than the slash.The Advanced options in the Excel Options dialog box. Scroll down until you see the Lotus Compatibility section.Click Advanced at the left side of the screen.

In Excel 2010 and later versions display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) (In Excel 2007 click the Office button and then click Excel Options. If you find yourself using the slash key quite a bit you can, if desired, change the secondary key to something else. That program used the slash key to switch from editing to command mode Excel included the behavior of the slash key as a way to make old Lotus users more comfortable with using Excel. (In other words, Alt is the primary key used to display the KeyTips and slash is the secondary key for this purpose.)Īctually, this behavior of the slash key is a holdover from the way Lotus 123 used to work decades ago. The slash key is considered a secondary menu key, while Alt is considered the primary menu key. There are actually two ways that you can display the KeyTips: either press the slash key or the Alt key. The 'virtual buttons' that appear are actually called KeyTips, and they provide a way to invoke ribbon tabs and tools using the keyboard. This one is easy because Excel is supposed to behave this way. Rebekah wonders why her Excel is behaving this way and what can she do to return it to normal. Since she uses Excel quite a bit, these approaches are not efficient. The only way she can type the / key is to activate the cell or to use the apostrophe first. When she tries to use it, nothing is typed and instead in the top-left of the screen two rows of virtual buttons appear-1, 2, 3, on the top and F, H, N, P, M, A, R, W on the bottom. Recently the / (slash) key stopped working on Rebekah's system, but only in Excel.

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