CCI 6 Tips

Monday, October 02, 2006

Use the Alt key for keyboard shortcuts

For those of you that prefer keyboard shortcuts, rather than moving and clicking the mouse, you might like this. It's a basic feature in Windows that works with almost any program.
Here's how it works:
  • Tap your Alt key once. Notice how one letter is now underlined in each of your top menus?
  • Now tap one of those menu letters, like "F"
  • The menu drops down and stays there. As you can see, the drop-down menus also have a letter underlined.
This may seem kind of cumbersome, but it can come in handy for those things that don't have a normal keyboard shortcut, like Ctrl+C for copy. For example, Editorial release doesn't appear to have a keyboard shortcut. But you could quickly access it by Alt, f, l, r.

Do that key combo a few times, and you might find it's quicker than moving your mouse to the top of the screen, and clicking on a couple of drop-downs. Give it a try.

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