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An Unintentional Week of Keyboard

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For some reason (entirely unintentional) I've spent a bunch of this
week babbling about keyboard issues. I guess you can tell where my mind is right
now.

So, I knew there was no better way to end the week than making sure you saw
what's become known as
"Charlie's
List" over on the venerable Excel
blog. It's the
biggest
list of Excel keyboard shortcuts known to humankind, in PDF form.

And I'll leave you with one last keyboard treat for the weekend, for those of
you with Office 2003. Try holding down ALT and clicking a single word in your
document. This is pretty useful especially if you select the Translation reference
book and you're trying to decipher a language you barely know. It's also a quick
way to get definitions, synonyms or other context-sensitive research help.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2006
    Man, we should eat dismiss clicks.
  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2006
    YES!
  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2006
    There's so much stuff like that that no power users know and completely wish they did. (Like how my world got better when I learned about shift-F3 in Word.) It'd be great if after x-amount of use, an office app asked you if you wanted to learn some shortcuts to do your common tasks faster.
  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2006
    Oops, Word12 can do several panes, so the Research pane no longer replaces the styles pane.

    Kudos for that! Though I'd still love to switch off Alt+Click and the Research pane completely.
  • Anonymous
    October 27, 2008
    PingBack from http://mstechnews.info/2008/10/the-office-2007-ui-bible/