Keyboard shortcuts for menus

In Winword you can easily pick a menu without using the mouse: Alt + a
letter from the menu name. You can see which letter you need because
it's underlined in the menu bar. Likewise, when a menu is open you can
pick a command by typing the letter which is underlined in the name of
the command. All this underlining doesn't look pretty on the screen, but
it works and it's fast.

I'm not sure how to do the same thing in the Mac version. I know that
Ctrl-F2 opens the menu under the blue apple, and that you can move to
another menu by hitting the right arrow. But isn't there some way of
going straight to the menu you want?

Once you have the right menu, typing the first letter of a command
sometimes highlights that command, but by no means always. For example,
in the Insert menu, typing C highlights first Comment, then Caption, but
not Cross-reference. Is there some logic to this?

Can any other mouseophobes help please? I'm using Word v.11.2, OS
10.3.9.

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