In Office 2010, there are a lot of shortcuts to assist you execute any function or move from one menu to another. This is going to be very handy in case if you’re without a mouse or you’re on the go and need to use Office to get work done. Here is the basic of shortcuts in Office 2010.

Press ‘Alt’ key to display the shortcuts. Press ‘Alt‘ key again if you want to hide it. Just to show you how to move to other tabs,  for instance, you’re currently at ‘Mailing’ tab, so to move to ‘Home’ tab, press ‘H’ key. There you go!

Now you’re at Home screen. By default, what you see in the screen shot below is the functional (my own term) shortcut which is used to execute any functions. For instance, to bold the font, press ‘B‘ key and so on.

Meanwhile, above screen shot is navigational (my own term) shortcut, which will be used to move from one tab to another.

From functional shortcut, press ‘ESC’ key to switch to navigational shortcut. Functional shortcut is now invisible, what you see now are navigational shortcuts as shown in the screen shot below. Notice the difference?

Pressing ALT or ESC key or click your mouse button anywhere in the Office document will hide the shortcut. Easy right??