Most of us have jobs that involve using computers for long hours tend to use
MS Office Suite
in one form or another, be it Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. You will agree that while we carry out our MS Office tasks, it is important to maintain a certain level of efficiency.
In my experience, “efficiency” increases with increasing keyboard shortcut usage and decreasing reliance on mouse clicks. While most of us use some basic and familiar keyboard shortcuts, we are not yet aware of their true potential.
That’s where Key Rocket can become quite useful. Key Rocket is an application that maintains a huge archive of keyboard shortcuts and combinations and their respective actions for MS Office. You can browse and learn new series in your free time. More importantly, it helps you learn by informing you of tips and shortcuts while you are actually working. Yes, so you learn on the job.
Let us see more about it.
Use Key Rocket to learn keyboard shortcuts
Once you’ve installed the tool, you won’t see anything specific happen. The tool icon continues to sit in the system tray. As soon as the installation is complete, a pop-up screen will introduce the tool.
Keep hitting Next Go to page number 4 and select the Rocket Master Edition (Free Personal Use and Paid Business) that you want to configure.
That’s all the effort required from you. Get ready to receive great tips and announcements about keyboard shortcuts as you work on MS Office documents. An example is shown in the figure below. This I get when I am working on an MS Word document.
Shortcut browser
As I mentioned, you can browse the tool to find more keyboard shortcuts. To show it, navigate to the system tray icon and click the option for Shortcut browser. Alternatively, use Windows key + K.
On the interface, you can select any of the four apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and enter query strings for the shortcuts you’re looking for. I tried a few of them and learned something really interesting and new.
If you want to adjust the options for notifications, you can navigate to Settings -> Preferences and tick/unmark what you require.
Also you can set it manually for most of the keyboard shortcuts (don’t know why this option is not available for all entries) whether you want to enable/disable notifications or leave it automatic.
Another cool thing is Global Statistics, which you can pull up by clicking on the globe-like icon in the upper left of the interface. This monitors applications as you are working with them and keeps track of mouse clicks and shortcuts that you have used or wasted.
It maintains a keyboard score that lets you know your performance with the keyboard. Over time, it also marks certain keyboard shortcuts as Mastered (when you perform that action with a keyboard shortcut instead of wasting mouse clicks).
Conclusion
Since I started using Key Rocket, I have come across many new and interesting key combinations. If you plan to master the same thing, don’t forget to share the tips you get informed about. Let us make it a collective experience in our comments section.
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