MS Word - Shortcuts

MS Word Shortcuts

Shortcuts in Ms-word makes work process easy and fast. In this tutorial I will be showing you the Ms-word shortcuts that you can use while editing and formatting your document.

SHORTCUTS USES
F1

Opens the help option pane

F7

Check spellings for the selected text (Opens the proofing pane).

Ctrl + N

Create new blank document.

Ctrl + A

Select all the contents in the document.

Shift + (Left Arrow)

Selects texts to the left.

Shift + (Right Arrow)

Selects texts to the right.

Shift + (Up Arrow)

Selects texts to the upwards.

Shift + (Down Arrow)

Selects texts downwards.

Shift + Home

Selects text from the current position to the beginning of the line.

Shift + End

Selects text from the current position to the end of the line.

Ctrl + B

Make selected text to be bold.

Ctrl + C

Copy selected text.

Ctrl + X

Cut selected content.

Ctrl + V

Paste copied or cut content.

Shift + Insert

Paste copied or cut content.

Ctrl + I

Make selected text to be in italic.

Ctrl + U

Underline selected text.

Ctrl + O

Opens the open option page.

Ctrl + P

Opens the print window page.

Ctrl + F2

Opens the print window page.

Ctrl + Shift + F12

Opens the print window page.

Ctrl + F

Opens the navigation pane to find words or sentences.

Ctrl + K

Opens the insert hyperlink dialog box.

Ctrl + G

Opens the Go To tab, inside the Find and Replace dialog box.

F5

Opens the Go To tab, inside the Find and Replace dialog box.

Ctrl + H

Opens Replace tab, inside the Find and Replace dialog box.

Ctrl + M

Add paragraph indentation.

Ctrl + Shift + M

Remove paragraph indentation.

Ctrl + D

Opens the Font options dialog box.

Ctrl + Spacebar

Resets the selected text to default font type.

Ctrl + T

Add hanging indentation.

Ctrl + Shift + T

Removes hanging indentation.

Ctrl + R

Aligns the selected text or paragraph to the right.

Ctrl + L

Aligns the selected text or paragraph to the left.

Ctrl + J

Justifies the selected text or paragraph.

Ctrl + E

Centers the selected text or paragraph.

Ctrl + =

Changes the selected text, letter or figure to subscript.

Ctrl + Shift + +

Changes the selected text, letter or figure to superscript.

Shift + F3

Change text case of the selected text.

Ctrl + Y

Redo last changes or action.

F4

Redo last changes or action.

Ctrl + Z

Undo last changes or action.

Alt + Backspace

Undo last changes or action.

F12

For save as.

Ctrl + S

To save the current document.

Shift + F12

To save the current document.

Ctrl + W

To close document window

Ctrl + 1

Add 1.0 line spacing to the selected text or paragraph.

Ctrl + 2

Add 2.0 line spacing to the selected text or paragraph.

Ctrl + 5

Add 1.5 line spacing to the selected text or paragraph.

Ctrl + ]

Increases the font size of the selected text by +1

Ctrl + Shift + >

Increases the font size of the selected text by +1

Ctrl + [

Decreases the font size of the selected text by +1

Ctrl + Shift + <

Decreases the font size of the selected text by +1

Shift + Enter

For inserting line break

Ctrl + Enter

For inserting page break

Ctrl + Shift + Enter

For inserting column break

Ctrl + Shift + *

For showing/hiding non-printing characters.

Ctrl + (Up Arrow)

Move text cursor to the beginning of the paragraph.

Ctrl + (Down Arrow)

Move text cursor to the ending of the paragraph.

Ctrl + (Left Arrow)

Move text cursor across on word to the left.

Ctrl + (Right Arrow)

Move text cursor across on word to the right.

Ctrl + Home

Move text cursor indicator to the beginning of the document.

Ctrl + End

Move text cursor indicator to the end of the document.

Ctrl + Delete

Deletes words to the right of the text cursor indicator.

Ctrl + Backspace

Deletes words to the left of the text cursor indicator.

Ctrl + F1

Hides/Displays the ribbon

Shift + F7

Opens the thesaurus pane.

Alt + Shift + D

Insert the current date.

Alt + Shift + T

Insert the current time.

Ctrl + Shift + (Left Arrow)

Selects a word to the left.

Ctrl + Shift + (Right Arrow)

Selects a word to the right.

Ctrl + Shift + (Up Arrow)

Selects text from its current position to the beginning of that paragraph.

Ctrl + Shift + (Down Arrow)

Selects text from its current position to the end of that paragraph.

Ctrl + Alt + 1

Changes the selected text to heading 1 style format.

Ctrl + Alt + 2

Changes the selected text to heading 2 style format.

Ctrl + Alt + 3

Changes the selected text to heading 3 style format.

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