Either select the cell and use in-cell editing to select 'is happy' or select the cell and edit in the formula bar and select the text 'is happy' Then right-click the selected text and select 'Format cells.' Format the selected text with the required color.

Excel for Office 365 for Mac Excel 2019 for Mac Excel 2016 for Mac Excel for Mac 2011 Why? So that every cell is wide enough to display the information that it contains, and so that you don't see the ##### sheet error. • Point to the separator to the right of the column that you want to widen.

• Drag the separator until the column is the width that you want. Hints • To quickly set the column width to display everything, double-click the column separator. • To make text wrap within a cell, on the Home tab, click Wrap Text. • To shrink the contents of a cell so that they fit in the current column width: In Excel 2016 for Mac, on the Home tab, click the Format button, click Format Cells, and then select Shrink to Fit. In Excel for Mac 2011, on the Home tab, under Alignment, point to Wrap Text, and then click Shrink Text to Fit.

I mean, this is Excel we’re talking about here. Hitting the Delete key is supposed to delete the contents of the active cell, for cryin’ out loud. In Excel for Mac it does that, but the cursor also gets stuck inside the cell in edit mode. You have to hit the enter key to finish deleting the contents, but this act also moves the active cell to the next cell down.

And if you’ve selected a range and hit the Delete key, the active cell contents are deleted and the cursor is stuck inside the cell in edit mode. You have to hit the Enter key, which does nothing but take you to the next cell. The range contents are still there, with the exception of the active cell. Not the kind of behavior that occurs in Excel for Windows. How to Delete Cell and Range Contents in Excel for Mac The trick is to remember that fn+Delete is really a keyboard shortcut to the Delete key on a Mac.

Then the world rights itself and the planets align. Frustration abates. You’ve finally found the magic. Your mojo is back! Watch this 54 second video to see what I’ve been babbling about for the past 454 words. • I know this is an old thread, but I just spent the last few weeks assembling a list of Windows and Mac Excel shortcuts. Right now, the list is just over 200* shortcuts: Seems like every time I look at the list, I find a problem to fix, but it’s a start.

Hope it’s useful for those who need to use both platforms. * I took a pretty granular approach, so some shortcuts are near duplicates (e.g. Selecting columns in a table and selecting columns in the worksheet are listed separately, but the behavior is a little different). • Phil Paradis Note that there is a Windows-style “Delete” key on the full-size Mac keyboards, in it’s usual place to the left of the End key.

(It’s labeled with a funny-looking symbol instead of “Delete”, and is referred to in most documentation as “Forward Delete”.) This key functions exactly as Delete on a Windows keyboard and Fn-Delete on the laptop/wireless Mac keyboards. The full-size model also has a 10-key number pad for those who prefer them, though some of the operator keys are misplaced relative to the PC layout which can take some getting used to.