Thanks Lance!! Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <hty31b5@hotmail.com> To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:42 PM Subject: RE: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Searching for a word in E-mail Message > You have discovered an often unused feature available in many programs, > Jane. If you look carefully at the toolbar on many screens you will see > that some of the items have one of the letters in their name unlined - > "F" in File; "E" in Edit; "V" in View; "O" in Format; "W" in Windows, > etc. Just by pressing the ALT key and any one of those underlined > letters will activate the corresponding action the name designates and > open the context menu. Then in the context menu you will see there are > more unlined letters. So by pressing, say ALT-T-O, it will open the > Tools context menu and then open the Options menu within Tools. Many > people become quite adept at using keystrokes rather then the mouse and > these shortcuts are quick and easy to memorise. > > Similarly the WIN key in association with various keys can perform many > functions. A general list is available here: > http://members.shaw.ca/xany/tips/keyboard.html > > Lance