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No Distaste for Paste (Why the UI, Part 7) (07 Nov 2005)
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.
Article URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/07/489864.aspx

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