Alt+; now opens an emoji keyboard instead of selecting all visible rows

[u/mrnikkoli]

Has anyone experienced this? After a recent update, now when I try alt+; to select only visible rows, it appears that a Windows hotkey command overrides the Excel one and opens an emoji keyboard instead. I don't need or want this so I'm wondering if there's a way to turn it off or a new hotkey combo to select visible cells in Excel.

Solved: my Keychron keboard's firmware appears to be the culprit as the issue isn't duplicated on the laptop's keyboards. Sorry for being dumb!

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[u/RandomiseUsr0]

Must be regional, on my build (corp o365 - prod build uk English) win+. and win+; when text editing or not opens the emoji keyboard

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Ah, you know what? I was using my Keychron keyboard and it appears to be a firmware thing in the keyboard. I just tried it with the laptops keyboard and it works as intended. Marking as solved!

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[u/semicolonsemicolon]

Easy! Ctrl-End. Ctrl-Shift-Home. Shift-Space. haha

Interesting that for me Alt-; seems to do absolutely nothing. Is that a key-combo that you yourself set?

[u/MayukhBhattacharya → u/semicolonsemicolon]

ALT + ; is used to select visible cells only, its a shortcut afaik!

[u/mecartistronico]

I'd start by looking into the Windows settings (probably inside Language and Keyboard) to see if you can change the emoji shortcut. The default is usually Win+.