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ALT

Windows Excel's Alt and Ctrl shortcuts, now on Mac

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ALT brings familiar Windows ribbon shortcuts to Excel for Mac, so commands like ⌥ H O I are back in your workflow. Every menu row is labeled with its shortcut, letting you navigate Excel entirely from your keyboard. You can even use Ctrl in place of ⌘, just like on Windows. Try ALT at altkeys.app with a 7-day free trial, then buy it for a one-time $10 payment. No subscription. ALT runs locally and never reads your spreadsheets, so your data stays private.

PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 2 views

Niche: spreadsheet tools and extensions · 138 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Spreadsheets
  • Finance
  • Banking

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Could you build this?

Partial Intercepting global keybindings and overlaying custom Alt/ribbon shortcut HUDs specifically into Microsoft Excel on macOS requires low-level macOS Accessibility and CoreGraphics event tap APIs.

What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/Objective-C development using macOS Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) and CGEventTap to intercept keyboard events before Excel processes them. The hard part is detecting dynamic Excel UI ribbon states and maintaining reliable key interception despite sandboxing and macOS permission hurdles.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 458 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #179 of 459 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.

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