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Deborah,
Excel has a built-in keyboard shortcut for Strikethrough: Ctrl + 5. Works in Excel 2007 as well.
--Jody
Excel has a built-in keyboard shortcut for Strikethrough: Ctrl + 5. Works in Excel 2007 as well.
--Jody
Those employing keyboard shortcuts to save time may well be those who are also intensively using the keyboard for their current computer operations.
Using a toolbar button to achieve the same end means that the cursor has to be moved using the mouse, which can cost substantially more time if its current position is a long way away from the target button (or the mouse is playing up because it hasn't its ball cleaned recently).
Using a toolbar button to achieve the same end means that the cursor has to be moved using the mouse, which can cost substantially more time if its current position is a long way away from the target button (or the mouse is playing up because it hasn't its ball cleaned recently).
I added the Strikethrough button to my formatting toolbar long ago because I use it a lot in various to-do type docs. It didn't take very long to tire of taking my hands off the keyboard, grabbing the mouse to select and click the button, then returning to the keyboard.
Now I have replaced Ctrl+K's Insert Hyperlink function (which I rarely use) w/ Strikethrough. Thanks, Jody!
Now I have replaced Ctrl+K's Insert Hyperlink function (which I rarely use) w/ Strikethrough. Thanks, Jody!
I use frequently the strikethorugh format, so I just dragged the strikesthrough button (from Tools/personalize/commands/format) to the Word toolbar instead of creating a keyboard shortcut
Much simpler to add the strikeout icon to your tool-bar via customization.
Some users are keyboard people; some users are toolbar people. I wrote this up as a keyboard shortcut tip in response to a member who asked me for a counterpart to Excel's built-in keyboard shortcut. Nice to have the ability to customize, either way!
--Jody
--Jody
Really fast typists - e.g. very experienced technical editors - often find it's much more efficient to keep their fingers on the keyboard rather than to jump from keyboard to mouse and back to the keyboard. It can really improve your typing speed to learn and use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse.
I almost always tab from field to field rather than using the the mouse when I'm filling out a web form. It can really reduce the length of time it takes to navigate through a page. Using the Home and End keys as well as the Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End can also improve efficiency.
[Edit: Expansion and grammatical correction.]
-Liz
I almost always tab from field to field rather than using the the mouse when I'm filling out a web form. It can really reduce the length of time it takes to navigate through a page. Using the Home and End keys as well as the Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End can also improve efficiency.
[Edit: Expansion and grammatical correction.]
-Liz
Thank you. I have been to several other sites trying to find a quick solution. All of them lead to dead ends. I appreciate the clear and correct direction! THX!!
awesome now I can create just about any combination I need! thanks!
- Keyboard Shortcuts:
- Prev
- Next
- Toggle
