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Keyboard Shortcuts, KeyTips, and Comics

If you are a fan of keyboard shortcuts and wonder what Word's new UI means for them, or if you don't know what a keyboard shortcut is, or if you are just tired of taking your hands off of your keyboard to use your mouse in Word, I highly recommend checking out Jensen Harris's Stroking the Keys in Office 12 & Odds, Ends, Shortcuts, and Accelerators post.

In short:

  • Keyboard shortcuts: individual keystrokes (or combination of keys pressed simultaneously) used to execute commands.
    • All of the keyboard shortcuts from previous versions of Word continue to work exactly the same way in Word 2007.
  • KeyTips: a feature new to Word 2007 that allows for easier keyboard navigation of Word's UI
    • Press the ALT key in Word 2007 to display a little piece of UI with a letter that appears over each tab of the Ribbon and all commands on the Quick Access Toolbar.

  • Pressing the respective key on the keyboard activates the command. For example, pressing the ALT key and then "1" will save your document, or pressing the ALT key and then "N" will switch the ribbon tab to the Insert Ribbon.
  • If you press a key associated with one of the Ribbon tabs (for example, "N" for the Insert tab) you will have access to all the KeyTips associated with commands on that Ribbon.

  • Now, hitting the "B" key, for example, will allow you to insert a Page Break into your document without leaving the keyboard. Nice.

Also, for a non-traditional look at Word 2007's new UI, checkout The Enchanted Office web comic.

-Jonathan

Published Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:37 AM by wrdblog

Comments

# re: Keyboard Shortcuts, KeyTips, and Comics

off topic - feature request

It would be great if I can import a citation from ACM/IEEE digital library into a word document.

Academic Live Search shows BibTEx entries. Can you link these two. An entry in the Research Taskpane and an import button would be very helpful.

Thanks

Pradeep

Friday, January 05, 2007 2:14 AM by Pradeep

# re: Keyboard Shortcuts, KeyTips, and Comics

Hi Jonathan,

I'm no longer able to group two pictures, Word 2007 group drawing objects only. How can I solve this problem?

Thanks

Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:21 AM by m_anter

# re: Keyboard Shortcuts, KeyTips, and Comics

On the subject of citations, I noticed another minor issue in Word. Word inserts an extranneous space between a periodical's name and the comma that follows it in the bibliography entry. This leads to incorrect line-breaking (lines start with commas.)

See http://www.francispickering.com/space.png

(The offending space is selected in the screenshot; the type of source is a "Journal Article.")

Sunday, January 07, 2007 11:07 AM by Francis

# re: Keyboard Shortcuts, KeyTips, and Comics

I know this is off topic, but comments on relevant posts are now disabled.

I am becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of information on compatibility between Office 2007 and SharePoint 2003.  I have written up some areas where I anticipate issues on my blog - looking for any help and advise.

http://steves.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/1/9/2636432.html

Thanks Steve

Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:42 PM by Steve Richards

# re: 60 Day Trial of Word/Office 2007 vs. Beta

I am trying to find out why Word 2007 Beta worked fine and now that I have installed the 60 Day Trial of Word 2007 version, I am having a problem. We access Word documents off of a network drive using the full UNC path (not the mapped network directory) which is all maintained inside a SQL database application. When we try to access the files from within the database program, it thinks that the documents are in use by another user (when they are not) and forces a Read Only open of the file. If I try to open the document directly from Explorer off the network drive, using the fully UNC path, it opens with the read only mode, but if I open it via the mapped network directory it opens fine. This has just shown up as we are starting to deploy Office 2007 release version and was not a problem in the Beta. Is there some registry setting that can be set to override this? or is there something else that is different between the Beta and the trial release that is causing this problem? As a temporary solution, we could live with the assumption that the document is not in use by another user EVER, because it very rarely ever happens that 2 people could or would be in the same document at the sametime (just the nature of what we are doing). Any help on this would be appreciated.

Monday, January 15, 2007 4:07 PM by gordontroy

# MindManager 7 - Getting Over Ribbon Shock

Howdy. I'd apologize for the lengthy silence on this blog, except I don't have a good reason

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:17 PM by The Organizational Irritant
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