MacOS Sequoia 15 Tiling Fn usage interferes with spreadsheet navigation in Microsoft Excel

[mhfnh]

The Tiling Fn usage to move and tile windows interferes with spreadsheet navigation in Microsoft Excel. For example in Excel fn-control-right arrow should move to the last cell in the sheet. That combination now tiles the window to the right side of the screen. I can find no way to turn off tiling. I use magnet which uses control-option-right arrow to tile the window to the right side of the screen.

Does any one have a way to turn off the Sequoia Tiling option?

 

[Bigwaff]

There is a "Shortcuts..." button which should allow you to change the keyboard shortcuts for tiling

Change window tiling settings on Mac

You can change the settings for window tiling and the space between windows on your Mac.

support.apple.com

 

[gilby101]

There is a "Shortcuts..." button which should allow you to change the keyboard shortcuts for tiling

Change window tiling settings on Mac

You can change the settings for window tiling and the space between windows on your Mac.

support.apple.com

I think that Settings pane only gives control over tiling by dragging - not via keyboard shortcuts. The "Shortcuts..." button at the bottom only apples to Mission Control shortcuts.

This page https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mchl9674d0b0/15.0/mac/15.0 lists the keyboard shortcuts, but gives no hint as to how change the shortcuts or turn them off.

Do you have detail as to how to turn them off.

 

[mhfnh]

There is a "Shortcuts..." button which should allow you to change the keyboard shortcuts for tiling

Change window tiling settings on Mac

You can change the settings for window tiling and the space between windows on your Mac.

support.apple.com

That discusses dragging with the mouse, not the keyboard. Thank you for your help.

 

[gilby101]

Does any one have a way to turn off the Sequoia Tiling option?

I have a fix for you. Redefine those tiling shortcuts.

System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts... > App Shortcuts > All Applications.

By default that shows just Shift-Command-/ for Show Help Menu

Now add two more shortcuts using the Plus button. Here is Left.

I use "Left" because that is the name in any app's menubar under Window > Move & Resize > Left.

And with both Left and Right, we have:

Fn-Control-left/right arrow shortcuts are now free and work as you expect in Excel.

The odd thing (bug? or is it just me?): I now expect Control-Option-, and . to tile left and right. But they do nothing. Apart from Control-Option-Left and Right arrow, I couldn't find a combination that created working shortcuts for Left and Right. Any change seems to disable. Disable any other tiling shortcuts in the same way.

I got this from a Reddit post with one of the betas.

 

[mhfnh]

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Fn-Control-left/right arrow shortcuts are now free and work as you expect in Excel.

The odd thing (bug? or is it just me?): I now expect Control-Option-, and . to tile left and right. But they do nothing. Apart from Control-Option-Left and Right arrow, I couldn't find a combination that created working shortcuts for Left and Right. Any change seems to disable. Disable any other tiling shortcuts in the same way.

I got this from a Reddit post with one of the betas.

Thank you for the partial fix. Still having problems with shift-fn-control-> to select all cells from the current location to the end of the sheet.

 

[mjsagert]

I had luck continuing this approach by remapping keyboard shortcuts for a few more tiling options, see below.

 

[t2jd1967]

Thank you for the partial fix. Still having problems with shift-fn-control-> to select all cells from the current location to the end of the sheet.

I ended up mapping all of the tiling keys for Excel, which was quite a bit of work to get right. I use BetterSnapTool and have specific shortcuts for that so the whole tiling functionality is just a nuisance to me. Just today it dawned on me that the issue was not Excel (I cursed at Microsoft first), but a problem introduced by Apple. To be sure, it is really only a problem on the road, because I use a full-sized keyboard whenever I am sat at a desk.