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How to Enable Slashes (/) in Excel 365

How to Enable Slashes (/) in Excel 365

December 26, 2022 by Mitch Bartlett 14 Comments

By default, the slash (/) key acts as a shortcut to the Excel menu bar. Here’s how to disable this so that you may use the slash character within your Microsoft Excel 365 spreadsheet.

To enable Excel the ability to use the slash in your spreadsheet, follow these steps.

  1. Select “File” > “Options“.
    Excel 2010 Options selection
  2. Choose “Advanced“, and then scroll down until you see the “Lotus compatibility” section.
  3. In the “Microsoft Office Excel menu key:” field, replace the slash with a character that you do not use frequently such as a tilde (~) or grave accent (`), then select “OK“.
    Microsoft Excel menu key selection

 

This will make the slash character available to type in an Excel spreadsheet. The new character you set however will no longer be available to type. You can also leave the field blank if you don’t want a Lotus key.

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Filed Under: Office Tagged With: Excel 365, Office 365

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  1. Suvadip says

    September 2, 2020 at 2:05 am

    Thanks a lot, very short and excellent answer

  2. jane doe says

    November 15, 2019 at 12:09 pm

    Thank you so much for this, I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I accidentally pressed on my keyboard.. How does this even happen? Why is this even a feature in excel for this to happen.

  3. Nicla says

    September 25, 2019 at 8:42 am

    Thank you very much! This is exactly the answer I needed!Thanks a lot! This is exactly the answer I needed! I spent a lot of time finding the solution!

  4. Savaş Erdem Çalışkan says

    August 7, 2019 at 8:26 am

    what about MacOS???? there’s no such path in macOS excel?

  5. Randy says

    June 17, 2019 at 9:40 am

    Found this solution after 45 minutes of searching online. Worked like a charm. Thanks.

  6. Russ says

    August 1, 2018 at 8:07 am

    Lifesaver. Christmas in July !

  7. Jessa says

    June 6, 2018 at 5:25 am

    Thank you very much! This is exactly the answer I needed. I thought my laptop has a virus or malfunctioned. ?

  8. Mike says

    March 31, 2018 at 11:59 pm

    I found it much easier to type it into Word, then copy and paste into Excel.

    One of many clunky “features” in an enormously useful program.

  9. Jason says

    July 10, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    Awesome! Thanks so much. I thought I was losing it… Couldn’t start entering text in a cell with /. Just left the Lotus key (whatever that is) blank. Appears to do the same thing as alt.

  10. sridhar says

    June 14, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    thanks for making our life easier!

  11. Renee says

    November 19, 2016 at 3:28 pm

    Thank you! I was beginning to think my keyboard was malfunctioning!

  12. naomi says

    September 29, 2016 at 3:42 am

    thank you. you are awesome!

  13. Rus says

    August 18, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    This one had me and all of my tech-savvy friends stumped. Thanks for putting the solution out here.

  14. joshua says

    August 5, 2016 at 3:50 am

    thanks, It seems that in years of using excel i must have never tried to start a box with a / and yet, I managed to find this super useful page really easily to fix it. Much obliged

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