

With me sometimes it works just fine but sometimes it does not. So, sometimes, it can be useful to try a mentionned shortcut from the online help in both combinations (Shifted/Unshifted) depending from the keyboard you for the answer. But from an en_US keyboard layouts' perspective, Ctrl+Shift+# is correct. This is due to that # is on a german keyboard reachable without pressing the shift key.

This does not work, I have to use Ctrl+#. An example: for applying a date format, the German Online Article mentions that I can use Ctrl+Shift+#. Therefore, the mentionned shortcuts (keystrokes) can lead to confusion and may be appear as incorrect. There is a note about this on the top of the article.

I already reported this to the MS localization team and they are going to check this.Īnother problem in the online help article for the shortcuts (at least for German) is, that the shortcuts always refer to an English US keyboard. So, in this case, it's for now an error in online help article regarding Ctrl+Semicolon.įor Excel 2016, there are some more errors in the Online Help Article for the German shortcuts, such as some Alt shortcuts, for example Alt+M which opens the Tell Me Box instead of the formulas tab. For inputting the current date in an empty cell, I can use Ctrl+Dot as known from previous versions. I have Excel 2016 in German and I am using a german keyboard.
