Fortunately for Joe, he's apparently learned his shortcuts in older program versions.

One of my big (but not the biggest) complaints with Microsoft's latest Office versions is that in Office 2007 (and after) they deliberately removed all the shortcut hints, shown in all prior versions by underlining the key letters in the link name that, with Alt+ the letter, was the shortcut. In previous versions you could turn the hints on or off, but since 2007 you can't turn them on. In addition they split many of the menus, so that you have to find Alt-A, X (to convert text to a table) among the 98 or so choices on one "ribbon" (and then it's found only from the menus by "drilling down" about three levels), and Alt-A, B (to convert table to text) on a different ribbon that has another 95 or so items on it. To sort a table by columns, you need a different ribbon (also with over 90 choices), and a popup tab (that's invisible if you don't pick the right color scheme), none of which take you directly to what you need.

They have also hidden all the intermediate menus, so that instead of Alt-A giving you the ONE menu for all of what you can do with tables, and where you were shown by hints all the choices for the next key for the next step to do exactly what you want, you have to remember multiple steps for the shortcut to get directly to HALF (at best) of ANY USEFUL MENU.

It would be extremely difficult for anyone learning, for the first time, from one of the "new" versions even to find most of the really useful keyboard shortcuts, nearly all of which were unchanged since around 1990 when Office was still DOS, and I have yet to find any menu item among the 700 choices shown on the new "ribbons" that doesn't require drilling down through multiple layers to get to the first things that are very useful (to me).

John