0.4 The ribbon, and the shortcuts worth learning

Work through these

• Ribbon, tabs, contextual tabs and the search box

  Commands live on tabs, some tabs appear only when relevant, and the search box finds anything by name. That last one is the fastest route to a command you have never used and cannot picture.

• The twenty keyboard shortcuts that pay for themselves

  A small set of shortcuts covers most of what you do repeatedly, and learning them once changes how the day feels. The number is small deliberately; memorising a hundred is not the goal.

• Undo, redo, repeat and format painter

  Undo, redo, repeat and the format painter are the four commands that recover from mistakes and copy work without retyping. Repeat in particular is the one most people never discover.

• Customising the quick access toolbar

  The toolbar you can customise puts your own handful of commands permanently within reach regardless of which tab is open. It is worth setting up once, early.