Guest Author - Chris Curtis

Common Keyboard Shortcuts for Word
If you become practiced at using keyboard shortcuts, you will find that your proficiency in Word will improve and your work will be accomplished more quickly. These keyboard techniques are called shortcuts because they take less time to execute a command then using the mouse to click on an icon or selecting a menu command. One way to make using shortcuts a habit is to start by selecting one or two commands that you use frequently and instead of reaching for the mouse, use the short cut instead. Once those have become a habit, select a couple more.

Open a New Document
• Press CTRL+N

Open an existing document
• Press CTRL+O – Launches Word’s Open Dialog Box Default Folder (usually My Documents)

Close a document
• Press CTRL+W

Save a document
• Press CTRL+S

Copy
• Select text or object to be copied.
• Press CTRL+C

Cut
• Select text or object to be cut.
• Press CTRL+X

Paste
• Position your insertion point where copied or cut text is to be placed.
• Press CTRL+V

Bold
• Select text to make bold.
• Press CTRL+B

Italicized
• Select text to make italicized.
• Press CTRL+I

Underline
• Select text to make underlined.
• Press CTRL+U

Select Text
• Place the insertion point at where you want to begin the selection
• Hold the shift key down
• Click at the end of where you want to end your text selection

Select All (entire document)
• Press CTRL+A

Select a Line
• Single click in selection margin next to the line you want to select


Select Paragraph
• Double click in selection margin next to the paragraph you want to select

Select All (entire document)
• Triple click in selection margin

Open the Go To; Find; and Replace Dialog Box
• Press F5 – launches the dialog box
• Select the appropriate tab for the task you wish to complete

Open the Find Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + F

Open the Go To Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + G

Open the Replace Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + H

Decrease font size
• Select text to be decreased
• Press CTRL+SHIFT+<

Increase font size
• Select text to be increased
• Press CTRL+SHIFT+>

Remove paragraph or character formatting.
• Select text to clear formatting
• Press CTRL+SPACEBAR

Undo the last action
• Press CTRL+Z

Redo the last action
• Press CTRL+Y

Print
• Press CTRL+P