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If you hold down <Alt> (I tend to think of it as Meta due to Emacs-induced brain damage), all of the targets on the ribbon should get associated keyboard characters, so you can quickly drill through the layers of the ribbon. After you’ve seen the shortcut, you can use it again without having to wait for any screen transitions. This used to work back in Office 2013, and I assume it still does…


>hold down <Alt> (I tend to think of it as Meta due to Emacs-induced brain damage)

when i hear ALT i reach to press ESC due to TECO-induced brain damage

not even joking at all. i'll finish the way you finish a teco command; ALT ALT

https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TECO $$




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