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Week of Monday, April 6, 2009

ALT Key to Explore Menus

Most Windows applications display a menu; you are probably familiar with the File menu in Word and Excel

When faced with a new application, give yourself 60 seconds to explore its capabilities using the ALT key to access the menu system.

Try this in Word, or in Excel:

Hold down the ALT key and tap the letter “F”.

The File menu appears.

Let go the ALT key, the File menu remains in view.

Then tap the right-arrow key repeatedly and glance at each of the main menu lists.

Now try the experiment in an application you have never used.

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