Keyboard shortcuts for styles

Is there a way of assigning a keyboard shortcut to an InDesign style if you have a keyboard without a numeric keypad?
Thanks
Derek
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How could it possibly be faster?
One keypress versus at least four!
I am just now wrapping up a 600-page bilingual project with about 150 paragraph styles. I have numpad shortcuts for commonly used styles like "bodyText" or "sectionIntro." However, the hassle of moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse to scroll through the list of styles is time-consuming enough that I use Quick Apply for almost all character styles, and many of the paragraph styles as well. And, because some of those styles are not commonly used, I often find that I'm using Quick Apply on a parastyle that already has a numpad shortcut - because I never remember whether the 5th-level outline entry with para space after is control-shift-numpad5 or control-alt-shift-numpad5. I dunno if this is why Steve finds Quick Apply so quick, but when I get to name my own styles, it's pretty much impossible to forget "o5a" for the 5th level outline with para space after, and I don't have to go scrolling through lists, expanding style groups, and so on. So, I feel you on that skepticism (even though he said it was as fast, not faster) but over the long run I've found Quick Apply to be signficantly faster for long documents with too many styles, despite the fact that
[ctrl-Enter] [o5a] [Enter]
requires more keystrokes than
[ctrl-alt-shift-numpad5]

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