[gurman]

I guess in an effort to make Office 2001 xomponents as Windowslike as possible (ptooey), Excel keyboard shortcuts such as command-D (fill down) are now control-D, and so forth, by default. Excel help gives no obvious hints as to how to change this. Does anyone know if there's a simple cure for this nonMaclikeness?

[Misha]

Transferring to Office 2001 forum: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/foru...=20&LastLogin=

I'm with the Office:mac team. We did not switch to using the control key to be more Windows-like. Rather, we "fixed" a bunch of more common shortcuts that we we using control instead of command. For instance, XL98 used control-B to bold. In XL2001, we know use command-B (to better match Word and every other Mac app). This caused the shortcut for "clear" to go from command-b to control-b.

[gurman]

Thanks for the response.I appreciate your checking this discussion area and responding.

I guess we could argue whether conistsency within the Office 2001 suite is more or less important than consistency with previous versions, but the loss of command-D for Fill->Down is, frankly, driving me crazy. Since the control key is in a slightly different position on the PowerBook keyboard than on all other Mac keyboards, I try to use it as little as possible, to avoid hitting the function modifier key instead. You have to agree that using control-anything as a keyboard shortcut in not terribly Maclike.

It would be nice to have a utility that allowed swaping control- and command- key responses. I don;t know how many other people would find that useful, though.