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I highly recommend using the 3ds Max shortcuts available for every tool and command rather than pointing and clicking on their respective icons and menus and this is simply because shortcuts access the commands way faster than the point and click method. The difference might just be a few seconds but if you count the number of times you access any tool or command in 3ds Max by pointing and clicking rather than using the shortcut keys in one project, those few seconds add up to minutes or even hours.

Take note that the 3ds Max shortcuts are not case sensitive, so you can use either the lowercase or the uppercase and it would yield the same results.

The image above shows the front side of the Quick Reference Cube that came along with Autodesk 3ds Max 2009.  The other five sides of that cube show the list of default shortcuts of 3ds Max you may use while using the program.

Have you had an experience in using Autocad where in you've already done a lot of labeling and have added a lot of callouts and text tags in your plans and drawings when you realized that some of the repeating callouts and text tags that you have been putting in all over the drawings were all wrong?  And then you go to all the hassle of going back and forth through your drawings to look for all those wrong texts and correcting them one by one?  Well, it happened to me a few years back when I was labeling all the finishes and specifications on the plans and elevations of a house I was working on in Autocad.  I was almost done with the callouts when I realized my mistake, I had placed a wrong specification for a certain finish I  was planning to use on the house.  The worst part about that is that certain word was scattered and was repeated all over the drawings.  It took me a lot of my time just to go through the drawings again to look for the word and to correct them one by one.   After that experience, I knew that I had to find a faster way to do the corrections if it happens to me again.  It did happen to me again but fortunately I found out about the Find and Replace Dialog Box in Autocad.