Disable / equivalence to Alt?

[Jerry W. Lewis]

If you select a cell and then press the forward slash key ("/"), Excel
shifts focus to the menu (even if the cell was pre-formatted as text),
as though you had pressed Alt. Apparently the only ways to begin a text
string with "/" is either to begin with a single quote or to type the
text into the formula window. Is there a way to disable this behavior
so that you can simply press the forward slash key?

Jerry

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

Choose Tools>Options, and on the Transitions tab, clear the slash from
the 'Microsoft Excel menu or help key' box

 

[David McRitchie]

Hi Jerry,
Select the column
Format, Cells, Text

I would also make sure that you do not have any of the Lotus Transition
options checked. Tools, Options, Transition, ...

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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