13 November 2026
v2.3.0 makes every ribbon shortcut work again on Office 16.115. It also adds the classic Excel 2003 menu keys (Alt+E, Alt+I, Alt+O and Alt+D), and the sort keys now work on numbers and dates
Earlier this month, Microsoft released Office 16.115 for Mac. It changed how the ribbon dropdowns work in Excel and PowerPoint, and some of your longer shortcuts stopped in the middle of the sequence. v2.3.0 fixes that. It also adds a set of shortcuts that many of you asked for: the menu keys from Excel 2003.
In Office 16.115, the ribbon dropdowns are now native Mac menus. Accelerator Keys could still open them, but it could not see the commands inside them. So a sequence like Alt+H, O, R (Rename Sheet) opened the Format menu and then stopped.
v2.3.0 reads the new menus directly. Every level works again, also submenus like Alt+H, O, U, C (Hide Columns). The ribbon overlay shows its letters on the menu items, as before. Escape closes the open menu and takes you back one level, also when a large gallery is slow to open.
The same fix applies in PowerPoint. For example, Alt+H, S, F, N gives a shape No Fill again.
If you learned Excel before the ribbon, your fingers still know the old menu keys. Windows Excel still accepts them, and now Accelerator Keys does too. Press Option, then type the sequence:
Most of these sequences open the matching Excel for Mac menu and show the old letters on its items, so you can see where you are. There are more than 70 new sequences, and each one has its own guide. See the full list in the shortcut guides.
Alt+A, S, A and Alt+A, S, D sorted text only. Excel gives the sort buttons different names for numbers (“Smallest to Largest”) and dates (“Oldest to Newest”), and Accelerator Keys looked only for the text names. Now both keys sort any column: text, numbers or dates.
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