@xpclient: "I said TWO-letter accelerators are bad. Learn to read, you pre-schoolers. They should be single letter accelerators."
What people are trying to tell you is that the primary reason for the two-letter accelerators is because those accelerators have ALWAYS worked! They aren't a ribbon thing! It's so people's existing memory (muscle and otherwise) would continue to work. Alt-F used to bring up the format menu and B used to select bold from it -- so Alt, FB is still the accelerator for bold.
Most of the time I just roll your eyes at you, but this is a PRIME example of someone complaining about change when they don't understand what is going on, as evidenced by the fact that you think the "two-letter accelerators" are new to the ribbon.
(Sorry Raymond, for keeping the off-topic discussion going.)