# Mac Excel users: keyboard shortcut to Ribbon

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 15, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-excel-users-keyboard-shortcut-to-ribbon/707323 "2014-12-15T20:02:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![FasterThanMeerkats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@FasterThanMeerkats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FasterThanMeerkats)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-excel-users-keyboard-shortcut-to-ribbon/707323/1 "2014-12-15T20:02:39Z")

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Starting a new job where predominant platform for microsoft excel is the Mac. Does anyone know the keyboard shortcuts to get to the Ribbon menus?

E.g. on PC if I hit Alt + H, it takes me to the Home Tab of the ribbon; if I hit Alt+P it takes me to the Page Layout tab.

Google does not provide any intuitive answers. Generally I don’t use the mouse in Excel unless I’m charting or using pivot tables, so if I can’t figure this out its going to seriously cramp my productivity and increase my aggravation level with Macs.

Please help!!

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**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-excel-users-keyboard-shortcut-to-ribbon/707323/2 "2014-12-15T21:55:12Z")

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[According to this site.](https://exceljet.net/keyboard-shortcuts) I don’t know what those keys are - besides the R, obviously - but I imagine the Mac savvy people do.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-excel-users-keyboard-shortcut-to-ribbon/707323/3 "2014-12-16T00:01:59Z")

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> [@galen\_ubal](#):
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> [According to this site.](https://exceljet.net/keyboard-shortcuts) I don’t know what those keys are - besides the R, obviously - but I imagine the Mac savvy people do.

According to that website the shortcut is called “Activate access keys” and there is no Mac equivalent. 😕