Jul 3, 2007

Key shortcuts MS Word

Do you use "Word" a lot? Most computers today have MS Word installed either as part of "Works" or as part of Microsoft Office. If you write letters or do other word processing tasks, you will know how time consuming it can be to keep moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse and back again. There are many combinations of keystrokes known as keyboard shortcuts. Learning these key strokes can save you a lot of time.
Here are a few:

CTRL + A Selects all in the current document.
CTRL + B Bold text.
CTRL + C Copies the item or text to the Clipboard and can be pasted using CTRL and V.
CTRL + D Displays the Font dialogue box.
CTRL + E Centre Alignment.
CTRL + F Displays the Find dialog box, to search the current document.
CTRL + G Displays the Go to dialog box, to go to a specific location in the current document.
CTRL + H Displays the Replace dialogue box.
CTRL + I Italic text.
CTRL + J Full Justification.
CTRL + K Create Hyperlink
CTRL + L Left Alignment
CTRL + M Tab
CTRL + N Creates a new document.
CTRL + O Displays the Open File dialogue box.
CTRL + P Displays the Print dialog box.
CTRL + R Right Alignment.
CTRL + S Displays the Save dialog box.
CTRL + U Underline text
CTRL + V Pastes the copied item or text from the Clipboard into the current position in the document.
CTRL + X Cuts the item or text selected to the Clipboard.
CTRL + Y Redo the last undone action.
CTRL + Z Undoes the last action.
CTRL + ENTER Insert Page Break.
CTRL + F2 Show Print preview.
CTRL + F4 Closes the active document window.
CTRL + F6 Opens the next document window.
F1 key Get help or use the Office assistant.
SHIFT + F1 Key Context sensitive help.
F2 Key Move text or image.
SHIFT + F2 Key Copy Text.
F3 Key Insert an autotext entry.
SHIFT + F3 Key Change the case of the selected text.
F4 Key Perform last action again.
SHIFT + F4 Key Perform a Find or Go to action again.
F5 Key Displays the Go to dialogue box, from here you can also Find and Replace.
SHIFT + F5 Key Move to a previous revision.
F6 Key Go to the next frame or pane.
SHIFT + F6 Key Go to the previous frame or pane.
F7 Key Launch the Spell checker.
SHIFT + F7 Key Launch the Thesaurus.
F8 Key Extend the current selection.
SHIFT + F8 Key Shrink the current selection.
F9 Key Update the selected fields.
SHIFT + F9 Key Switch between a field code and it's result.
F10 Key Activate the menu bar.
SHIFT + F10 Key Display a Shortcut Menu. Same as right clicking.
F11 Key Go to the next field.
SHIFT + F11 Key Go to the previous field.
F12 Key Save file As, equivalent to tools menu.
SHIFT + F12 Key Save document, equivalent to tools menu.

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