Using No Need to Remember Keyboard Shortcut Keys in Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007, or 2007 Microsoft Office System (O07) is the latest productivity suite from Microsoft official released and launched on 30 November 2007 to business customers, or early 2007 to mass public retail. Office 2007 is a major upgrade and has lots of improvements and innovative features over previous version of Office programs (Office 2003). One of the major new features of Office 2007 is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Ribbon, replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception. Another feature is the easy-to-remember (or more appropriately to call no-need-to-remember) keyboard shortcuts or shortcut keys to access to commands and functions of Office 2007 programs.

The keyboard shortcuts mentioned in this article is unlike the Ctrl-S to save, Ctrl-O to open, Ctrl-Z to undo, Ctrl-Y to redo, or Alt-F4 to close type of shortcut keys popularly used in applications nowadays. The keyboard shortcut keys in Office 2007 is a series of key sequence that allows users to access and trigger certain commands and functions without using the mouse. When compared with the old style shortcut keys, the Office 2007 shortcut keys have a whole new look and display.

Word 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts
Word 2007 ribbon with keyboard shortcut keys displayed. The disabled shortcuts are still been displayed, although it’s grayed out.

How to Use the Keyboard Shortcuts in Office 2007

By using Save as PDF as an example, using keyboard shortcuts in Office 2007 is extremely easy and requires no memorization of key sequence or key combination at all.

Office 2007 Keyboard Shortcut
Simply press the Alt key, and the next available keyboard shortcuts for commands and menu options is been display. Press to F to access Office menu.

Office 2007 Keyboard Shortcut
Inside the Office menu, the available shortcuts for each menu items is displayed next to it. Simply press the corresponding key on the keyboard. In this case, press F again.

Office 2007 Keyboard Shortcut
Press on the appropriate keyboard shortcut again (P) to Save as PDF.

Office 2007 Keyboard Shortcut
After the complete keyboard shortcuts sequence, the Publish as PDF or XPS dialog window appears.

So to access Save as PDF or XPS in Office 2007, the keyboard shortcuts is the simple Alt-F-F-P. And best of all, the keyboard shortcuts are available for almost all commands and functions in all programs of Office 2007 such as Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 and Outlook 2007.


6 Responses to “Using No Need to Remember Keyboard Shortcut Keys in Office 2007”

  1. rasool
    April 20th, 2008 15:39
    6

    hi.i am rasool ghafoori.i dont undestand english very good. i need shortkey in mirosoft project 2007 or 2003(msp).please mail for me this informations.
    my e-mail: rasool_ghafoori@yahoo.com

    thanks for your assistance.

  2. Ted
    March 21st, 2008 18:33
    5

    For PowerPoint I use the tool PowerPoint ShortcutTools, which allows me to set user defined shortcuts for my most used commands.

    You can download it from http://www.shortcuttools.com

  3. Hilco
    December 31st, 2007 19:29
    4

    Oh, very easy. Just press Alt-J-D-A-U-C to center align an object. Got that? Jay Dee Aaaaaah Uuuuuurgh Ceeeeeeeeeeee.

    Why is it STILL so difficult for MS to make things easy?

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    January 30th, 2007 00:50
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    [...] Scout is probably a good news to those who want quick access to every commands, tools, features and functions in Microsoft Office applications by a few simple keystrokes. Scout will return all matching and available commands that has name that matched what user typed, paginating at 9 commands per page. User can then click on the command to run it, or execute it with a keyboard shortcut, or KeyTips. [...]

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    [...] KeyTips – appear in front of the Ribbon tabs with a single letter or combination of letters for users to type to activate the feature when users press the Alt key. [...]

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    December 18th, 2006 23:29
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