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Personally I would preferred to use keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse. In fact, you may said you can save a lot of time using mouse for certain task. In some cases, you must know the right keys to push to do what you need to do much more faster.

There are some required VMware keyboard shortcuts you should know:

Ctrl+B - Power on the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+D - Edit the Virtual Machine Settings
Ctrl+E - Power off the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+G - Grab input from mouse & keyboard
Ctrl+N - Create a new Virtual Machine
Ctrl+O - Open a Virtual Machine
Ctrl+P - Edit User Preferences
Ctrl+R - Reset Virtual Machine
Ctrl+Z - Suspend the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+F4 - Close the selected Virtual Machine
Ctrl+Alt - Return to normal(windowed) mode
Ctrl+Alt+Enter - Switch to Full Screen Mode
Ctrl+Tab - Switch between open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed. VMware Workstation must be the active application.
Ctrl+Alt+Tab - Switch between open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are grabbed
Ctrl+Shift+Tab - Switch among open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed. VMware Workstation must be the active application.
Ctrl+Alt+Fx - Switch among open virtual machines while using full screen mode. Fx is a function key corresponding to the virtual machine you want to use. The key combination to use for a virtual machine is shown in the VMware GSX Server title bar when that virtual machine is active and in normal (windowed) mode.
F11 - Switches to full+screen mode and back to normal mode
Ctrl+Alt+Insert - Sends a ‘Ctrl+Alt+Delete’ to the VMware Guest OS
Ctrl+Alt+Space - Send a keyboard sequence usually used with VMware server to the VMware guest without VMware Server recognizing it.

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