MICROSOFT WORD KEYBOARDS SHORTCUTS

Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts

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).

These shortcuts are very useful in your daily life.These shortcuts will save lots of time

• 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.