The other point to note is the inconsistent behaviour of Office apps: Word and Excel respond differently to PowerPoint. Otherwise scrolling when holding down ctrl alone may enable the OS accessibility zoom (akin to pinching with the trackpad).
Update: Turns out a lot of people were searching for this! First off, yes it isn’t a true keyboard shortcut, you have to have one hand on the mouse, which isn’t optimal.Ĭommenters have also pointed out that if you are using a mouse instead of the trackpad then you might find you have to hold down the control + option keys (ctrl + alt on newer mac keyboards) to use the scrolling zoom keyboard shortcut in Office.
Surely I can’t be the only one who didn’t know about this keyboard shortcut… or can I? :/ It also works in Word and PowerPoint (probably all Office 2016 apps for the mac). I thought I would post this keyboard shortcut here as it isn’t actually listed in the official Excel Mac 2016 keyboard shortcuts guide but it isn’t intuitive and it took me ages to eventually figure it out. Excel, Word or PowerPoint simply hold down ‘ctrl’ key and scroll up or down using your mouse or trackpad.
