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Old November 28th, 2003, 12:19 AM
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P.S. In 1999 I compiled an index of all keyboard shortcuts for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and IE. I did this for people who are blind and use a screen reader application. I was horrified at what a complete mess I found. First, there were something like 900 across all the apps which narrowed down to about 400 when you removed "duplicates" - There were many shortcuts for the same item - for example 4 ways to Save as. I think this was left over from the time when MS was beating up all its competitors and included their shortcuts in Office to make "switching" easier for users of Word Perfect, Lotus 123 and many other dead programs. In addition, the same shortcuts were used for different functions in the different Office apps. Some of these were understandable - Excel and Word do not do the same things - but others were absurd. One more rant - the old Office help files would often list/organize keyboard shortcuts not by some function, but by the keys used! For example, all keys using Shift or Shift + Function Key... when the actual functions of shortcuts within these categories had nothing to do with each other!

Any way, it was interesting to see what a disaster had occured over so many years. Whatever you come with on your own will probably be much better!
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