Use Keyboard over Mouse to Improve Productivity
Sure, you have heard this before. But, do you know the reason behind this logic?
Well, most of us use keyboard mostly to key in text and get our work done with it. The time taken to switch from keyboard to mouse is the time that is getting wasted and to add onto it, once you hold the mouse in your hand, you will have to move over to the icon which consumes some time as well.
Let me justify this with an example. You are typing an email in Microsoft Outlook and when you are done, you have two choices to send it out. The first involves the ever-so-popular mouse and a click of a button on Send will do the trick. Second, the productive way, is to know the keyboard shortcut for Send, which is Ctrl + Enter and hit it soon after you are done typing the email. Which one is faster? I will let you decide on this one.
From experience, I have worked with several senior executives and have seen them in action. They take an awful amount of time to set up appointments and send out emails, including the one liners. It’s agonizing to see somebody who’s paid in barrels be as unproductive as they are. If only they had known a couple shortcut keys!!!!
As per studies conducted, keyboards are supposedly three times faster than mice in performing the same action. Is that all the difference? I expected it to go in tens if not hundreds.
Seriously folks, keyboards are much much much faster than mice. You can watch any computer professional in action and he/she will hardly touch the mouse. Observe people who browse the web, they key in the address in the address bar by navigating through Tab key and hit Ctrl + Enter to search the page. You can perhaps navigate through anything clickable on your desktop through the Tab keys.
Let me know about your experiences especially if you believe that the keyboard more than 3 times faster than the mouse. Just kidding! Leave a note with what you think.
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