So I thought, why not have a keystroke do the job via Butler (or another similar utility)?
Note: Control-F2 (by default) selects the Apple Menu and it will prevent you from creating a keystroke with that definition. Before you proceed, you have to disable the 'Move focus to the menu bar' feature in the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel. Look on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, in the Keyboard Navigation section. Just uncheck the box next to this feature.
The three locations I use the most are in this order (at the top of the sub-menu):
- •Home
- •Work | DTS Office
- •Work | Other
So I went to my Butler config and created a new keystroke:
Control-F2, Down Arrow, L, Right Arrow, Return
This changes the location to •Home. To switch to •Work | DTS Office, I did:
Control-F2, Down Arrow, L, Right Arrow, Down Arrow, Return
The keyboard shortcut/keystroke you assign it is also important. You want to avoid using Command, as it will hang up the process and prevent it from executing if you hold down the Command key too long (it hangs right after Control-F2). So to avoid that hassle, I assigned Control-Option-F1, Control-Option-F2, and Control-Option-F3 to my three most-used locations.
When you are all done, don't forget to re-enable 'Move focus to the menu bar' to make it all work. And instead of having to turn it off again in the future to create additional keystrokes, just duplicate one of the existing keystrokes you've already defined and modify the duplicate (Butler lets me do this).
I hope this saves many laptop users some unwanted trips to the Apple Menu, at least via the mouse.

