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Beyond that, people also generally don't know that you can actually learn the commands to do things with the keyboard by reading the menus.

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Unfortunately, many applications and operating systems have decided to hide keyboard shortcuts and underlined accelerator keys, in the interest of "user friendliness."

Wait, like what?

Windows, for example, won't show the underlines for keyboard accelerators until you hold down the Alt or Ctrl key (I can't recall which, because I always disable the option). Unfortunately I can't recall which application(s) I was using that didn't show keyboard shortcuts next to menu items.

It kills me when I watch my non-technical colleague editing a document by repeatedly selecting words, right-clicking, slowly scrolling down to either Copy or Cut, then click somewhere else, right-click, slowly scroll down to Paste...

He also regularly "checks" spreadsheets with a handheld calculator... Sometimes going as far as not using formulas at all.

To be fair, I do both of those as well: the former when I have only one hand free, and the latter to sanity-check my formulas.

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