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POWER USERS’ CLINIC POWER KEYS FOR THE
RIBBON

The Ribbon is supposed to enhance your efficiency by putting
every conceivable command in one place, with nothing hidden.
But how efficient is a tool that requires mousing?

Fortunately, the Ribbon is fully keyboard-operable. It even has

a built-in cheat sheet. To see it, press the Alt key, which is the
universal Windows shortcut for “Show me the keyboard
shortcuts.” Now you see the little boxed letter-key shortcuts for

each of the tabs, as shown here. (Those keystrokes work,
however, even if you haven’t first summoned the cheat sheet.)

Sometimes, you’ll actually see two-letter codes, to be typed

one letter at a time. In a Pictures library, for example, the
Picture Tools tab of the Ribbon offers “JP” as the keyboard
shortcut to get you to the Manage tab. But the idea is the same:

to save you time and mousing.

Paste Shortcut. If you’ve copied an icon to the Clipboard, this
command pastes a shortcut icon of it—another handy way to make

a shortcut (Figure 3-9).

Move to, Copy to. These handy buttons/menus make it quick and
easy to move or copy selected icons to another place on your

computer. The pop-up menu lists frequently and recently opened
folders; you can also hit “Choose location” to specify a folder