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Send multiple keys at the same time to Excel not working

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Posted on by carolyn1 5

I'm trying to send Ctrl+Shift+1 to Excel to format a (selected in the last step) column as a number. Whatever I do results in a 1, {, and/or ( in the row 1 cell. 

 

I've looked around the forums already and tried the different syntaxes suggested in other posts, but nothing is working. Help please?

 

Tried: 

  1. {LControlKey}({LShiftKey}({1}))
  2. {Control}({Shift}({1}))
  3. {Control}({Shift}(1))
  4. {Control}({Shift}{1})

 

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    kinuasa Profile Picture
    kinuasa 801 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Please try the following:

    • {Control}({Shift}({D1}))
    • {LControlKey}({LShiftKey}({D1}))
  • carolyn1 Profile Picture
    carolyn1 5 on at

    That worked!! Thank you so much!

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