The microsoft online documentation for Desktop Excel misleadingly cites the same shortcuts for French and English even when they have explicitly chosen to change them for linguistics reasons (Ctrl+R and Ctrl+D are Ctrl+D and Ctrl+B in French to match the translation of “right” and “down”) or these shortcut are literally impossible to use on a French Keyboard.
The offending shortcut is the purported (at this point I’m not even confident this is an actual shortcut) Ctrl+” to paste the content from the immediately above cell, but on French keyboards the corresponding keystrokes already do other things:
- French-Canadian QWERTY (which I use): Ctrl+Maj+2, which seems to be doing something related to cell widths (certainly not Bold formatting, as Microsoft somehow claims).
- AZERTY: Ctrl+Maj+3, which I have NO idea what it’s actually assigned to other than it gives me a “no corresponding cells” error message and Microsoft has the gall to pretend it’s an alternative for Italics.
Normally I would use the shortcut customizer to check what the keystroke is… but that is only available in Microsoft Word. Does the Ctrl+” shortcut exists at all in the French version of Excel and if so what is it?
