Efficiency Tip #44 – Alt-Letter

This tip dates back to the days of DOS programs.  When faced with a dialog box where some of the options have letters that are underlined, use Alt-Letter to select that option.  For the dialog box on the right, Alt-Y selected Yes and Alt-N selects No.

The Alt-Letter keys are built into every menu of almost every program in Windows.  Press Alt-F right now.  Most programs will open the File menu.  Alt-E is the Edit menu.  Personally I use Alt-E, S to get to the Paste Special menu in any Microsoft application.  I use that feature often and the Alt-Letter method is the quickest way to get there.

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