The frustration is palpable, and it is entirely justified. Microsoft has given the same piece of software two different keyboard shortcuts for the same basic action, and the result is a workflow that punishes muscle memory. This is not a minor quibble. For anyone who spends hours inside a spreadsheet, a shortcut that works in one environment and breaks in another is a direct tax on productivity. You pay for it every time you zoom when you meant to scroll, or do nothing when you meant to shift the sheet sideways.
This user's experience highlights a deeper problem with how legacy spreadsheet tools are designed. They were built in an era when the desktop application was the only environment, and each update layered on new features without reconsidering the whole. The web version, added later, had to be rebuilt from a different codebase. The result is exactly what we see here: two control schemes that drift apart over time, and no simple setting to reconcile them. The user tried to fix it themselves, searched for a solution, and hit a dead end. That is not a failure of the user. It is a failure of the product to respect the user's time and consistency.
What this means for you, the reader, is that the tools you rely on are not getting fundamentally better. They are getting patched, ported, and left with these inconsistencies. You can work around them, build your own macros, or memorize which version requires which key combination. But those are coping strategies, not solutions. The real fix is a platform that treats the web and desktop experience as one unified system, where a shortcut works the same way regardless of where you open the file. That is not a futuristic ask. It is a basic expectation for any modern productivity tool.
The question to ask yourself is whether you want to keep adapting to a tool's inconsistencies, or whether you want a tool that adapts to you. The user who posted this is not asking for a revolution. They are asking for the same shortcut to work in two places. That is a reasonable standard. If your current spreadsheet software cannot meet it, it might be time to explore alternatives that were built from the ground up with consistency and user behavior in mind. Your muscle memory deserves better than a workaround.