This topic itemizes all keyboard shortcuts for Excel 2016 for Mac. Excel keyboard shortcut for merge cells: Alt-Enter Or if you need to do this multiple times at once, then do one merge, and then use F4 to repeat your last action. To merge a group of cells and center the text, you can also use the Merge and Center button on the Excel tool bar. Excel gives us an option to select the visible cells only using the keyboard shortcut Alt+ (hold down the Alt key, then press the semi-colon key). Note: Merge and Centre option takes the text of only one cell which will be upper-left most cell while performing Merge … Select the cells to merge. Merge Across − When a multi-row range is selected, this command creates multiple merge cells in Excel - one for each row.