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Are you one of the many people who have been complaining or suffering from repetitive strain injury caused by using a mouse too much? Or perhaps the keyboard is the only option available to you? At any rate, this lesson will give you an alternative to operating Microsoft Project 2013 without using a mouse, and that is through the use of keyboard shortcuts. A helpful tool to let you know the keyboard shortcut of a certain command is called the keytip. It's the small bubble that appears when you hover over a command and describes what the command does and what keyboard shortcut can be used to get it to work. If you want to know more about the various keyboard shortcuts in Project 2013, watch this video!

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Welcome back to our course on Project 2013. We’ve already looked at the use of touch in Project 2013 and we’ll be using touch at various points during the course. We’ve also seen how to switch between mouse mode and touch mode. Now for many people they either prefer to use the keyboard or in some cases they have to use the keyboard. Some people suffer from things like repetitive strain injury, RSI, from using a mouse too much and they find it much less troublesome to use the keyboard. For other people, the keyboard may be the only options available to them. So being able to operate Project using the keyboard or using the keyboard as much as possible is either a preference or necessary for many people. So in this section, I’m going to take a quick look at the facilities for using the keyboard in Project 2013.

Now the first thing to point out is that when we looked at Help earlier on in the course and we found that this question mark icon is the one to use, if you hover over it you get a screen tip. The screen tips says Help and then in brackets F1. F1, the F1 function key on your keyboard is the keyboard shortcut for Help. And in fact many of the commands on the Project 2013 Ribbon and many other aspects of using Project 2013 can be driven by keyboard shortcuts. Now we are going to come across various keyboard shortcuts during the course and I will mention the key ones as we go along, but I must also confess that I am not a great user of keyboard shortcuts myself mainly because I use very many different pieces of software and if I tried to remember all the keyboard shortcuts there would just be hundreds and hundreds and I’d get hopelessly confused. Having said that many of the keyboard shortcuts associated with common operations such as copy and paste type operations, I do remember and I do use them all the time.

If you look at the Ribbon here for Project 2013, if I hover over a particular command, let’s choose that one, Team Planner, you get a screen tip. It says Team Planner. But note that there is no sign of a keyboard shortcut. Let’s hover over another one, Resource Usage, Resource Sheet, you see how with these there is no keyboard shortcut. But if I go to another command such as that one, I get a screen tip and note I get a keyboard shortcut as well. So if you want to just check the keyboard shortcuts, hovering over a command on the Ribbon will tell you whether it has a keyboard shortcut or not. And if you’re good at remembering keyboard shortcuts once you’ve identified that, then maybe that’s a good basis for you using that keyboard shortcut again in the future.

Now if you want or need to use keyboard shortcuts, there’s something that will really help you and that is if you go into the Project Help, the online version, under Getting Started one of the entries there is Project keyboard shortcuts. And if you click on that link, it takes you to a document that lists the Project keyboard shortcuts. Now there’s an explanation of the what and why of keyboard shortcuts, and then there’s a categorized list of the Microsoft Office basic keyboard shortcuts that’s the ones that are pretty much common across all of Microsoft Office. And then there are the ones specifically related to Microsoft Project...

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