To save an excel file as tab-delimited text into a specific subdirectory, these are the keystokes I have found to be required for this single operation in Office Excel 2003 under Win XP:

alt-F, A
Tab, T, T, Return
Shift-Tab, Shift-Tab, Up arrow, Down arrow, Return
Alt-S, Return, Y, Control-W, N

That’s fifteen keystrokes for something that should take one click. Further providing me amusement is the employment of not one, but TWO meta-keys to provide menu-command and window-control access.

Experienced Excel users will also recognize that the use of the “Y” and “N” keys in the final line of this control sonnet are a negative agreement and a positive agreement to the gentle and concerned ministrations of the save-dialog wizard, which forces the user to respond consecutively “Yes” and “No” to two similar questions having to to with Excel data-formats and the lack of support for them to be found in text files.