Does OS X have a keyboard short to active the Word menus?

From: Carol (purplecp_at_mac.com)
Date: 03/28/04 

Date: 27 Mar 2004 20:50:29 -0800

I've been using Word 98 on a G4 for the last three years at work. I
recently bought an eMac running OS X for home use and, consequently,
am using Word X for the Mac at home. For the prior two decades I used
Windows machines and, in every version of Word I've used since the
mouse came into existence, have gone through the process of learning
new keyboard shortcuts.

The OS X Word F10 function key doesn't perform the way it did in the
'98 version (that is, "Activate Menus") and I can't find any way at
all to get up into the menus on the Standard toolbar without using the
mouse. (I know: I can get to some menu items with the keyboard. To
get to Format Paragraph I will need to use Option + Command + M [and
THERE'S an intuitive combination of keyboard movements for you, by
golly] but I can find no way, for example, to simply activate the
Format menu (Alt + F? No. F10 followed by F? No.) without the
mouse.

When I was still using Word for Windows, several years ago, Alt + F
opened the File menu. In Word 98 for the Mac F10 followed by F will
still do that. Now, it would seem that Word has progressed to the
point that that this little bit of functionality has been entirely
destroyed.

What am I overlooking? I want to activate the top-level menus (File,
Edit, View, Insert, et al.) USING THE KEYBOARD.

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