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which makes them useful only as long as you remember what you used in a previous version of Office Not really. If you don't remember what you used in a previous version of office, you use the new ones. Have a look at this screenshot of what happens when you press 'alt'-- the little letters on top of the tabs represent the key you can press to switch to that tab, upon which you get this. Sure, Alt+F doesn't make a vast amount of sense for the office menu; it's probably that because that's what everyone already knows; but alt+H for the Home tab etc. make sense. And of course, if you do still want to use the old ones (e.g. alt+e for edit menu) rather than the new ones, they still work; and if you don't remember the old ones, use the new ones.

I use excel without touching the mouse--all keystrokes that go through the menus (alt-em, alt-es alt-v, etc). This would be a disaster for me. I'm probably going to get modded redundant for this, since this is around the 4th time I've posted the same thing, but all the keyboard shortcuts, including the alt+ shortcuts work exactly the same way in Office 2007 as in previous versions. If you rely on the visual cues form the menus, there are visual cues too -- when you press alt, this sort of thing appears, and you press the corresponding key. In fact, keyboard navigation's even been improved, because *all* commands now have alt keyboard shortcuts -- though, for commands that already had them, the key sequence is unchanged.

But don't let facts get in the way of a little FUD.

all one has to do is hover the mouse over the "button" that activates the option You don't even need to do that; just press 'alt' like before (see here for a screenshot of what appears)