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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Shortcut Keys for MS Word

Since most of us are using MS Word for making a document, here's my gift to you... shortcut keys for MS Word which I found very useful.

Just pick at least 5 shortcut keys a day until you get used to all of it.

Enjoy!

Shortcut
Action
Ctrl + A Select all contents of the document
Ctrl + B Bold/unbold highlighted text
Ctrl + C Copy highlighted text
Ctrl + I
Italize / un-italize highlighted selection
Ctrl + P Open the print dialog box
Ctrl + F Open find dialog box
Ctrl + S
Save the document
Ctrl + Shift + S
Save As
Ctrl + X
Cut highlighted text
Ctrl + K Insert a link
Ctrl + U Underline / remove underline on highlighted text
Ctrl + V Paste the copied or cut text
Ctrl + Y Redo the last action
Ctrl + Z Undo the last action
Ctrl + L

Left align of the selection (or all if nothing been selected)

Ctrl + E Center align of the selection (or all if nothing been selected)
Ctrl + R Right align of the selection (or all if nothing been selected)
Ctrl + M Indent a selected paragraph (or all if nothing been selected)
Ctrl + Shift + F Change font face
Ctrl + Shift + > Increase font size of the highlighted text
Ctrl + ] Increase selected font by +1pts.
Ctrl + Shift + < Decrease font size of the highlighted text
Ctrl + [ Decrease selected font by -1pts
Ctrl + Shift + * View or hide non printing characters
Ctrl + Left Key Cursor moves one word to the left
Ctrl + Right Key Cursor moves one word to the right
Ctrl + Up Key
Cursor moves to the beginning of the line or paragraph
Ctrl + Down Key Cursor moves to the end of the paragraph
Ctrl + Del Deletes word to right of cursor
Ctrl + Backspace Deletes word to left of cursor
Ctrl + End Moves the cursor to the end of the document
Ctrl + Home Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document
Ctrl + Spacebar Reset highlighted text to the default font
Ctrl + 1 Single-space lines on a selected paragraph
Ctrl + 2 Double-space lines on a selected paragraph
Ctrl + 5 1.5-line spacing on a selected paragraph
Ctrl + Alt + 1 Changes text to heading 1
Ctrl + Alt + 2 Changes text to heading 2
Ctrl + Alt + 3 Changes text to heading 3
Ctrl + F1 Open the Task Pane
F1 Help window
Ctrl + N
Open a new document
Ctrl + F2 Display the print preview
Shift + F3 Change the text in Microsoft Word from upper to lower case or a capital letter at the beginning of every word
F5 Open the find, replace, and go to window in Microsoft Word
F7 Spell and grammar check selected text and/or document
Shift + F7 Runs a Thesaurus check on the word highlighted

More shortcuts to come...

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