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I am one of those people who only use keyboard with NAV. Classic, of course. Seriously, I can keyboard my way through NAV and do literally everything—and I am dead serious about the everything part of it—with only my keyboard. With Classic, mouse is quietly resting under piles of papers. In RTC, mouse is an active animal.

Yes, absolutely, this is the number one reason why I never adopted the RoleTailored Client and I still use the Classic one extensively. (Another one is a minor and an irrelevant fact that NAV 2009 still isn’t available in my region.)

So, in hope that this blog finds its way to the right address in Vaedbek, Denmark, I’m compiling a list of less-known or less used keyboard shortcuts that I use to navigate through Classic client, which mostly can’t be achieved (or can’t achieve exactly the same goal) in RTC.

This is not a definite list, and it might be lacking correct information. I’d like to turn this into a reference of “what’s still missing in RTC” over time, and I hope pretty soon the right column gets filled in completely (with stuff other than “not possible”, preferably).

So, here it goes:

And now for some funny ones:

This is just some of them that I remembered quickly. I know it’s all yesterday’s news, because RTC has been around for two years, but the problem is – this is still not solved.

However, after having participated in some implementation projects and delivered a number of What’s new in NAV 2009 trainings, what I can say is this: I’m not alone at complaining about this.

So, if you want to really improve user experience in RoleTailored client, Microsoft should think about making it keyboardable. It would suck the Classic bit the dust before the stuff above still required me to use mouse. Mouse is not my kind of exercise—I prefer fitness tubes.