RosewineC Keyboard Shortcuts Mouse Mat,Quick Key Super Large

RosewineC Keyboard Shortcuts Mouse Mat

I use a lot of applications on my PC and rely extensively on keyboard shortcuts to speed things up. This mouse mat is a handy reminder of some useful shortcuts for various PC applications aimed mainly at graphics and office productivity. It’s a fabric type mat, and my mouse moves and tracks well on the surface. It’s not the slickest surface I’ve used though; it’s fine for graphics and office, but I would choose a hard mat for gaming.

My first impression was how large the mat actually is — it’s huge! This is good on the one hand as it makes it easy to list a lot of shortcuts, but also means you end up putting the keyboard on top of it, so you can’t see them! The mat also has a strong and unpleasant rubber smell when you first open the packaging, and this took quite a while to go — even after a couple of weeks it was still very strong.

The keyboard short cuts are pretty good, covering Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Word, Excel. PowerPoint and Project. There are few oddities in spelling and phrasing that are probably translation errors – changing font size for example, says “lose 1 pound” instead of “decrease by 1pt”, or “recover operation” rather than “redo”. But overall, the shortcuts are a useful reminder that a shortcut actually exists and can point you in the right direction if it’s not immediately clear what it means.

This is a bit of an odd product, because of its size you need a large desk and you will probably end up with the keyboard covering the very short cuts you want to look up. But with careful positioning and manoeuvring it’s a good way of learning or having a reminder of some real time saving short cuts.