Microsoft Word is Microsoft’s flagship word processing software. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), the Apple Macintosh (1984), SCO UNIX, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows (1989).
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- Ctrl + A - Select all contents of the page.
- Ctrl + B - Bold highlighted selection.
- Ctrl + C - Copy selected text.
- Ctrl + D - Open the font dialogue box.
- Ctrl + E - Aligns the line or selected text to the centre of the screen.
- Ctrl + F - Open find box.
- Ctrl + G - Open find and replace box.
- Ctrl + H - Also opens find and replace box.
- Ctrl + I - Italicise highlighted selection.
- Ctrl + J - Justify (spread) the text across the page.
- Ctrl + K - Insert link.
- Ctrl + L - Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen.
- Ctrl + M - Indent the paragraph.
- Ctrl + N - Open a new document.
- Ctrl + O - Open a document stored on your hard drive.
- Ctrl + P - Open the print window.
- Ctrl + R - Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen.
- Ctrl + S - Saves the current document.
- Ctrl + U - Underline highlighted selection.
- Ctrl + V - Paste contents of clipboard.
- Ctrl + W - Closes the current document.
- Ctrl + X - Cut selected text.
- Ctrl + Y - Redo the last action performed.
- Ctrl + Z - Undo last action.
- Ctrl + Shift + F - Change the font.
- Ctrl + Shift + > - Increase selected font +1pts up to 12pt and then increases font +2pts.
- Ctrl + ] - Increase selected font +1pts.
- Ctrl + Shift + < - Decrease selected font -1pts if 12pt or lower, if above 12 decreases font by +2pt.
- Ctrl + [ - Decrease selected font -1pts.
- Ctrl + Shift + * - View or hide non printing characters.
- Ctrl +
- Moves one word to the left.
- Ctrl +
- Moves one word to the right.
- Ctrl +
- Moves to the beginning of the line or paragraph.
- Ctrl +
- 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.
- Ctrl + 2 - Double-space lines.
- Ctrl + 5 - 1.5-line spacing.
- 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 - Open Help.
- Alt + Ctrl + F2 - Open new document.
- Ctrl + F2 - Display the print preview.
- Shift + F3 - Change the text from upper to lower case or a capital letter at the beginning of every word.
- Shift + - Insert Paste.
- F4 - Repeat the last action performed.
- F5 - Open the find, replace, and go to window in Microsoft Word.
- Ctrl + Shift + F6 - Opens to another open Microsoft Word document.
- F7 - Spell and grammar check selected text and/or document.
- Shift + F7 - Runs a Thesaurus check on the word highlighted.
- F12 - Save as.
- Shift + F12 - Save.
- Ctrl + Shift + F12 - Prints the document.
- Alt + Shift + D - Insert the current date.
- Alt + Shift + T Insert the current time.