Most-Used Commands

Shamelessly cribbed and clipped from Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog . PLEASE read the full article at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/04/07/570798.aspx



Top 5 Most-Used Commands in Microsoft Word 2003
Paste
Save
Copy
Undo
Bold

Together, these five commands account for around 32% of the total command use in Word 2003. Paste itself accounts for more than 11% of all commands used, and has more than twice as much usage as the #2 entry on the list, Save.

Paste is also far-and-away the number one command in Excel and PowerPoint, accounting for 15% and 12% of total command use, respectively.

A few people asked in comments about the top "actions" done in Word 2003. Here they are:

Cursor Right
Cursor Left
Cursor Down
Backspace
Cursor Up

Even the last of these (Cursor Up) is done about 8 times more than Paste, so people are doing a lot of cursoring around in the document (as you'd expect.) We don't collect letter and number presses, but I expect you would find that they line up along expected frequencies ...

Why do I post this here? Chances are that you fit the curve, and whether or not you realize it, these are YOUR most used commands and actions.

I have provided hyperlinks to my posted articles about each such command