Since I cant take no for an answer I thought Id try this forum, although Apple.com doesnt seem to have a place for non-Apple apps for the Mac.

I am looking for Alt-key navigation for the Mac versions of Windows Office (at least as available through Windows Office 2003 versions).

If youve never used Excel on a Windows machine, you will likely misunderstand this request (based on my review of Google search results).

In Windows Excel 2003, you can access any menu command through the keyboard in a very efficient way.

A lot of Mac people respond to Alt-key questions with the standard shortcuts (Command O is open) or thinking the problem is that there is user confusion because there is no Alt key (its the Option or Command key).

Im also not interested in the Accessibility feature (Ctrl-F2) which is very slow compared to direct access since youre essentially replicating a mouse action, rather than an actual keyboard shortcut.

This question is application specific (Office); I know about OS system shortcuts (and use those often as well).

What I am interested in is leveraging keyboard commands, since although not GUI and oh-so-not-nouveau- cool, are the old fashioned way expert users get work done really fast.

When you need to pound in data, keeping your hands on the keyboard is always faster than typing, the mouseeye, then hands back to typing, then mouseeye.

What I am looking for is some trickery, macro, add-in, something that replicates being able to hold down the Alt (option or command or control on the Mac) key and type TOG (for example), which will instantly execute toggling grid on or off (ToolsOptionGrid).

WAO ( w indow a rrangeh o rizontal), and so on through tens or hundreds of very frequently used menu combinations.

With Windows Alt key navigation, you can navigate by touch typing even if youre using an infrequently used menu combination by holding down the Alt key and reading the menu, seeing the shortcut (underlined letter), typing it, and moving on to the next submenu (or the next work task).

Granted, Microsofts new Ribbon interface (started on Office 2007 on Windows) seems to indicate the world thinks more GUI is needed, but Ive yet to find an expert user who doesnt hate it.

Fortunately in Ribbon versions of Office, you can still type most Alt key shortcuts from memory.

Ive always had Macs at home, and mostly Windows at work (except for two companies.

Im resurrecting this issue because Im really kind of aggravated that when I have serious Excel work to do for my personal life, I do it on my work computer because the mousemenu approach is so much slower.

It happens exactly the same to me and I assume that many hundreds of thousands of people.

My solution was to create a product that puts Mac Excel shortcuts right on the keyboard.

Its a super thin silicone keyboard cover that I call the Excel Skin.

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