Table of Contents
Word Keyboard Shortcuts #
| CTRL+0 | Toggles 6pts of spacing above the paragraph. |
| CTRL+A | Select all contents of the page. |
| CTRL+B | Bold highlighted selection. |
| CTRL+C | Copy selected text. |
| CTRL+D | Open the font preferences window. |
| CTRL+E | Aligns the line or selected text to the center of the screen. |
| CTRL+F | Open find box. |
| CTRL+I | Italic highlighted selection. |
| CTRL+J | Aligns the selected text or line to justify the screen. |
| CTRL+K | Insert a hyperlink. |
| CTRL+L | Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen. |
| CTRL+M | Indent the paragraph. |
| CTRL+N | Opens new, blank document window. |
| CTRL+O | Opens the dialog box or page for selecting a file to open. |
| CTRL+P | Open the print window. |
| CTRL+R | Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen. |
| CTRL+S | Save the open document. Like Shift+F12. |
| ALT+F,A | Save the document under a different file name. |
| ALT+X | Show the Unicode code of a highlighted character. |
| CTRL+T | Create a hanging indent. |
| CTRL+U | Underline the selected text. |
| CTRL+V | Paste. |
| CTRL+W | Close the currently open document. |
| CTRL+X | Cut selected text. |
| CTRL+Y | Redo the last action performed. |
| CTRL+Z | Undo last action. |
| CTRL+SHIFT+L | Quickly create a bullet point. |
| CTRL+SHIFT+F | Change the font |
| CTRL+SHIFT+> | Increase selected font +1pts up to 12pt and then increase 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+/+C | Insert a cent sign (¢). |
| CTRL+’+<CHAR> | Insert a character with an accent (acute) mark, where <char> is the character you want. For example, if you wanted an accented é you would use Ctrl+’+e as your shortcut key. To reverse the accent mark, use the opposite accent mark, often found on the tilde key. |
| CTRL+SHIFT+* | View or hide non printing characters. |
| CTRL+<LEFT ARROW> | Moves one word to the left. |
| CTRL+<RIGHT ARROW> | Moves one word to the right. |
| CTRL+<UP ARROW> | Moves to the beginning of the line or paragraph. |
| CTRL+<DOWN ARROW> | 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. |
| ALT+CTRL+F2 | Open new document. |
| CTRL+F1 | Open the Task Pane. |
| CTRL+F2 | Display the print preview. |
| CTRL+SHIFT+> | Increases the selected text size by one font size. |
| CTRL+SHIFT+< | Decreases the selected text size by one font size. |
| CTRL+SHIFT+F6 | Switches to another open Microsoft Word document. |
| CTRL+SHIFT+F12 | Prints the document. |
| F1 | Open help. |
| F4 | Repeat the last action performed (Word 2000+). |
| F5 | Open the Find, Replace, and Go To window in Microsoft Word. |
| F7 | Spellcheck and grammar check selected text or document. |
| F12 | Save As. |
| SHIFT+F3 | Change the text in Microsoft Word from uppercase to lowercase or a capital letter at the beginning of every word. |
| SHIFT+F7 | Runs a Thesaurus check on the selected word. |
| SHIFT+F12 | Save the open document. Like CTRL+S. |
| SHIFT+ENTER | Create a soft break instead of a new paragraph. |
| SHIFT+INSERT | Paste. |
| SHIFT+ALT+D | Insert the current date. |
| SHIFT+ALT+T | Insert the current time. |
