Referring to the shortcuts list is often faster than navigating Office 2007's ribbon interface. It's usually faster to scroll through my shortcut list to find the operation I need than it is to search through the tabs on the Office 2007 ribbon. These shortcuts have really come in handy with the 2007 versions of Word and Excel. I keep my shortcut list in a small window I can Alt-Tab (or Alt-Esc) to when I want to refresh my memory. Now get into the habit of opening your shortcut file each time you start working in Word or Excel.
Follow the instructions above to select, copy, and paste the shortcuts into a new file you save with the. To create a similar shortcut-reference list for Excel, go to Microsoft's compilation of Excel shortcut and function keys. Select the shortcuts, press Ctrl-C to copy the text, open Notepad or any text editor, press Ctrl-V to paste the list into a new file, and save the file with the. Start by browsing Microsoft's list of keyboard shortcuts for Word. That's why I created separate text files I refer to when I'm working in one of those two programs. My shortcuts.txt file is getting overloaded, but it doesn't include any of the handy keystroke combos available in Word and Excel. Then a couple of months later I added key combinations for moving and resizing windows.
There are simply too many useful key combinations to remember, which is why I described how to create a keyboard-shortcut cheat sheet last April.
But you may not know that pressing Alt-Esc moves between your open windows in the order they were opened. If you're familiar with keyboard shortcuts, you probably know that you can cycle through your open windows by pressing Alt-Tab.