Mac OS X has long lagged behind Windows in terms of being able to control the menu with a keyboard. There's no Alt + underlined letter, for instance. Instead, at best, you had a clunky ^F2 "switch focus to menu bar," along with a load of arrow presses. Now there's a new solution, using a well-known feature of Leopard -- its new improved help menu.Press Command-Shift-/ to go to the Help menu, tap in the first few letters of the command you want to use, and it will pop up in a Spotlight-esque manner. Press the down arrow key to select it and press Enter. That's usually about five or six key presses, and far beats the mouse for fast typers.[robg adds: To be fair, 10.4 had a decent keyboard navigation system for the menu -- press Control-F2 to select the menu bar, then type a couple letters of the main menu item's name (Ed), press the down arrow to select the ...

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