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Comment by preg_match

11 hours ago

Basically everyone in a white collar job who is NOT a developer is using Excel. I'm a developer, even I have to use Excel at work.

that's exactly what I'm saying

basically everyone uses Excel. And basically everyone is a MOUSE-first user (or, even further along the chain: TOUCHSCREEN-first)

keyboard-based menu navigation is not intuitive. it can be "poweruser" oriented, but it's not for most of the userbase

  • Keyboard shortcuts for those menu items are what most people will learn -- save, print, cut, copy, and paste will be the common ones that a lot of people will know.

    I'd be willing to bet that professional typists and people who spend the majority of their day typing (email, word, IDEs/text editors, etc.) are the ones who will know more keyboard shortcuts and navigation, especially for the things they do repeatedly.