Becoming practiced at using keyboard shortcuts, will increase your proficiency in MS Works Word Processor and your work will be accomplished more quickly. These keyboard techniques are called shortcuts because they take less time to execute a command then it does to use the mouse to click on an icon or select a menu command. When using keyboard shortcuts, you keep your hands on the keyboard. 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 to put into practice.

Open a New Document
• Press CTRL+N

Open an existing document
• Press CTRL+O – Launches the File Open Dialog Box in the My Documents Folder

Close a document
• Press CTRL+W
Executing this command when the file has not been previously saved will display a prompt for you to save your document.

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 Find Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + F

Open the Go To Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + G

Open the Replace Dialog Box
• Press CTRL + H

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