problems will be familiar with the benefits of using keyboard shortcuts instead of hard- to-follow mouse actions. Narrator responds to a wIde range of keyboard shortcuts through which it can be told what to read, thus saving the user having to listen to a lot of time-wasting preamble. The most useful key of all is Ctrl, which silences Narrator should it start to get on your nerves. The other shortcut keys are laid out in Narrator's Help file .