Remember that Office users use the keyboard.

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The changes to menus, etc, in the past few versions of Office, in particular,
Word seem to forget the Office users are office users and, therefore, use the
keyboard a lot. The new menus and other functions seem to forget this - they
require users to use the mouse.
I personally am a very fast typist; I knew a number of the old keyboard
shortcuts. Now, I must use the mouse to change style and all sorts of other
activities which should be keyboard-able.


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AFAIK, all the "old" keyboard shortcuts still work in Word 2003.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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The changes to menus, etc, in the past few versions of Office, in particular,
Word seem to forget the Office users are office users and, therefore, use the
keyboard a lot. The new menus and other functions seem to forget this - they
require users to use the mouse.
I personally am a very fast typist; I knew a number of the old keyboard
shortcuts. Now, I must use the mouse to change style and all sorts of other
activities which should be keyboard-able.


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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

....for example, Ctrl+Shift+S activates the Style box. Type the first few
letters of a style, push the down arrow to select it, and press Enter. You
can create style "aliases" as well, for even faster style selection.

Ctrl+D brings up the Font dialog.

Lots of shortcuts still work as they have for the past decade or so. Plus,
just about anything that's not already assigned to a keystroke, you can
customize and assign to one.