why change the keyboard shortcuts between Office 2003 & 2007??

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Microwave Mike

Please, before I freak out, explain why it was necessary to change the
keyboard shortcuts between Office 2003 & 2007? Is there program support to
allow advanced users to continue using their existing skills, or is there
some kind of evil plot to make everything harder for loyal users?

For example, in Outlook, "Insert Signature" used to be Alt+I, S...now it's
Alt+N, G...how does that make any sense? and since I and S aren't even being
used, why change it?

Why must Undo change from Alt+E, U (duh, Edit Undo) to Ctl-Z?

Seriously, wtf?

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Please, before I freak out, explain why it was necessary to change the
keyboard shortcuts between Office 2003 & 2007? Is there program support to
allow advanced users to continue using their existing skills, or is there
some kind of evil plot to make everything harder for loyal users?

For example, in Outlook, "Insert Signature" used to be Alt+I, S...now it's
Alt+N, G...how does that make any sense? and since I and S aren't even being
used, why change it?

Why must Undo change from Alt+E, U (duh, Edit Undo) to Ctl-Z?

Seriously, wtf?
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I've always used a toolbar button for adding signatures (never used Outlook,
though). There doesn't seem to be any uniformity for the email clients I do
use.

I've been using Ctl-Z for undoing edits in most every application for years.
If I had started using Outlook from versions earlier than 2007, I'd have
been confused. Until I got used to the difference.
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Sorry, but I am not a "Webbie". I use a news client. No buttons to click,
and I don't particularly see why I should open a browser for anything as
unimportant (to me) as this.
 
With another day under my belt with Office 2007, I'm even more dismayed. The
"access keys" (i.e. keyboard shortcuts) for Word, Excel and PowerPoint are
largely unchanged. For example, "Alt+E, U" is still consistently "Undo" for
all of them. Just...somebody apparently thought it made sense to let Outlook
now be inconsistent with the rest of Office. I do not get it. ~ Mike
 
While Ctrl-Z is widely acceptable standard for Undo, I am 100% with you Mike
on the Signatures issue.

Because I have several signatures, I can't even insert my signature using
keys only, and have to resort to scrolling through them by mouse or arrow
keys. Very painful.

Isn't there a way to write a clever macro which would insert my favourite
signature and assign it to Alt-[something]?

-Dmitri
 
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