About RibbonBridge

RibbonBridge is a small, independent Mac app that brings the Windows Alt shortcuts and F1 to F12 to Excel and PowerPoint for Mac. It is built by one person, Leonard Peez.

Why it exists

I'm a finance master's student at Esade in Barcelona. Like most people in finance, I learned Excel on Windows: Alt H O I to fit a column, Alt H V V to paste values, F4 to lock a reference. Then I sat down in front of a MacBook, and none of it worked. Modelling tests, case studies and group projects suddenly meant clicking through menus again.

Many of my classmates had the same problem, and the usual answers were bad ones: run Windows in a virtual machine, pay a yearly subscription, or relearn everything with Mac shortcuts you can't use at work anyway. So I built RibbonBridge: tap Option instead of Alt, type the same letters, and it works the way you learned it.

How it is made

• Native and small. A Mac menu bar app, signed and notarised by Apple, for macOS 13 and later.
• Through Office's own menus. Every action runs through Excel's or PowerPoint's own commands, so ⌘Z undoes it as usual.
• Private. Nothing you type is recorded or sent anywhere. The app only reacts right after a lone tap of Option in an Office app.
• The real Windows letters. The letters come from the Windows versions of Office, in English (Alt H …) and German (Alt R …).
• One price. €15 once, no subscription, with a 7-day free trial.

What's next

Word support follows in November 2026, with the same licence. If a shortcut you rely on is missing, tell me and I'll add it.

Contact

Questions, feedback or partnership ideas (finance clubs, trainers, universities): leo@ribbonbridge.com. Support: support@ribbonbridge.com. Follow along on LinkedIn. Legal details are in the Impressum.