Keyboard shorctus - please help!!

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jimpf

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Hi,

I'm a brand new convert from Windows. When working in Windows there are two types of shortcuts I use constantly that I can't find good analogs to in OS X

1) Menu navigation. In Windows I use the Alt-XX keys to navigate menus and select menu items. In OSX the only analog I can find is using Ctrl-F2 and then the arrow keys. Is there a program I can get that will let me emulate the windows shortcuts? My work is SO much slower without these shortcuts

2) Zoom. In Windows I can hold control and then use my scroll wheel to zoom in and out of all Office documents (word, excel,powerpoint). How can I change the zoom w/the keyboard or mouse?


Please help! I use these shortcuts so much and they make my work so much faster that I am considering selling my powerbook to return to a windows machine. I definitely don't want to do that but I don't know what to do.

thanks in advance,

Jim
 
Also, look to the Finder/Application bar and pull down a menu. To the right of the menu command is the keyboard shortcut. Also, if you ever have a USB mouse, joystick that doesn't have the software to program all the buttons, etc. then look for a cool little program called USB Overdrive. That program saved a very old USB joystick I had. Lastly, you'll find most modern mice work right out of the box, no extra software/drivers needed.
 
I was hoping there was some sort of extra mac program or something like that that would parallel the universal shortcuts windows has built in?

I wonder why Mac doesn't add this functionality in? Is there someone who has familiarity with both sets of keyboard shorcuts? Is it possible to obtain parity on speed by learning and adding my own Mac shortcuts versus the shortcuts in windows? I'm willing to learn the different system if it's possible to get pretty fast with them, they just seem so cumbersome for menu navigation and the like...
 
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