I'm a speed nut — when I'm working at the computer, I do everything I can to save time. That includes using a lot of keyboard shortcuts to avoid using the menus. Still, there are always some commands that don't have keyboard shortcuts. Getting to those means taking your hand off the keyboard, grabbing the mouse, finding the cursor, and then finally going to the menu bar to access the command.

Until now.

Apple and Scott Kelby just pointed out this super-handy timesaver (note that this trick requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later). To activate the menu bar, just press Control-F2. The Apple menu icon will highlight. Now you can move left and right using the left/right arrow keys to select the menu you need. Press Return to drop the menu down, then type the first letter of the command you need, and the selection will jump to that command. Pressing Return selects the command.

No mouse involved! Perfect...fast and simple.