Microsoft Word’s 30 most used keyboard combinations/shortcuts and hotkeys.

Posted on November 19, 2007 
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Microsoft Word and Excel are Microsoft’s most used applications. We often use it at home and in the office. Microsoft Word and Excel have many build in tools for the users to get the most out of the applications. Probably the most common are the Office (keyboard) Shortcuts. Most of us know “CTRL+B/I and U” and “CTRL+C/X and V” but there are hundreds of shortcuts and hotkeys for the Office Suits and for programs like Microsoft Excel and Word.

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This is the list of the 30 most used keyboard combinations/shortcuts and hotkeys for Microsoft Word.

CTRL+B - Make letters bold.

CTRL+I - Make letters italic.

CTRL+U - Make letters underline.

CTRL+DEL - Delete the word to the right of the cursor

CTRL+BACKSPACE - Delete the word to the left of the cursor

CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR - Create a nonbreaking space.

CTRL+C - Copy the selected text or object.

CTRL+X - Cut the selected text or object.

CTRL+V - Paste text or an object.

CTRL+ALT+V - Paste special

 

CTRL+SHIFT+< - Decrease font size one value.

CTRL+SHIFT+> - Increase font size one value.

CTRL+[ - Decrease font size 1 point.

CTRL+] - Increase font size 1 point.

CTRL+HYPHEN - Create a nonbreaking hyphen.

CTRL+SPACEBAR - Remove paragraph or character formatting.

CTRL+SHIFT+V - Paste formatting only

CTRL+Z - Undo the last action.

CTRL+Y - Redo the last action.

CTRL+SHIFT+G - Open the Word Count dialog box.

 

CTRL+L  - Align selection or paragraph to the left of the screen

CTRL+E - Align selection or paragraph to the centre of the screen

CTRL+M - Indent paragraph or selection

CTRL +1 - Single-space all the lines in selection

CTRL +2 - Double-space all the lines in selection

CTRL +5 - 1.5 - space all the lines in selection

F7 - Run a spelling and grammar check

SHIFT+F7 - Use the Thesaurus

CTRL+SPACE - Toggle AutoCorrect

CTRL+SHIFT+8 - Toggle hidden characters that mark spaces, carriage returns, etc.

 

This list is primarily for Microsoft Word but most key combinations should work for most of the Office Applications. We will publish Later this week a list with the most used keyboard combinations and shortcuts for Microsoft Excel.

I hope you’ll enjoy working with this list of Microsoft Word keyboards combinations/shortcuts and hotkeys.

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7 Responses to “Microsoft Word’s 30 most used keyboard combinations/shortcuts and hotkeys.”

  1. Lonneke on November 19th, 2007 11:02 pm

    You forget the shortcut F5 ;-)

  2. Vincent on November 20th, 2007 1:07 am

    I didn’t forget about this shortcut. Even though it’s not one of the 30 most common ones it is for sure a handy one, I even used it tonight to change some keywords for another site.

    With this shortcut you open the Find and Replace window with an open GoTo tab. This shortcut will be in the compressive shortcut list that we are making and I’m also dedicating an article to it next week.

    Thanks for the update though.

  3. Steve Roberts on November 28th, 2007 10:14 pm

    How do you open word 2007 with a blank page. As I remember it was with a /e in the shortcut script?

  4. Steve Roberts on November 28th, 2007 10:15 pm

    Sorry, without a blank page

  5. Vincent on November 28th, 2007 11:36 pm

    I’ve never used this one and I don’t know for sure. I’ll get back to you.

  6. Steve Roberts on November 29th, 2007 3:02 pm

    Vincent:
    Here it is: One really has to go to the desktop and create a new shortcut and browse to the c:\programs files\Microsoft Office\Office 12\winword.exe
    Click okay for the short cut and then add a /n after the last “. This will open Word without a blank document open. (I rarely open word to start a document on a blank screen - usually with letterhead or memo or fax)

  7. Vincent on November 30th, 2007 2:38 pm

    I was thinking of a more complicated way, this is pretty easy. I’m glad you figured it out and thanks for letting me/us know.

    I think Ill be writing an article about this in the next weeks.

    Thanks Steve

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