I totally understand that, and I agree. But I still don't think that's an issue, for the following reasons :
- You only have to do it once (or little by little, as needed). It would be a totally different story if you had to set it up for each spreadsheet. And if it well designed, you can even share the config with colleagues, so that it is not to painful.
- How many shortcut do people use ? 10 ? 20 ? 30 tops ? There is a limited amount of information I can store in my brain, I won't use up the available memory with shortcuts I don't use. If you just swap shortcuts you use with ones you don't use, you're fine.
- I don't think anyone can argue that no shortcuts / stupid shortcuts (due to non-US keyboard, for instance) is better than some (maybe not easily) customizable shortcuts.
Example. I am an big fan a subscript. Massive fan. If I could, I would do sub-subscripts and maybe even sub-sub-subscripts. Shortcut is Ctrl+-. except I have a french keyboard, and Ctrl+- on the "main" part of the keyboard doesn't work, it only works with the numerical pad ... which I don't have on my laptop. So unless I plug in an external keyboard, I have to click to get subscripts, which I use severl times per operation ! That's just unacceptable. I would happily trade any silly function or symbol I never (or rarely) use for a good subscript shortcut.
