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Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

This document lists keyboard shortcuts for formatting and editing text in Microsoft Word. It includes shortcuts for selecting all text, changing text formatting like bold, italics and underline, cutting and pasting text, undoing and redoing actions, changing paragraph alignment and indentation, changing font size and style, navigating text with arrow keys and by word or paragraph, deleting words, resetting text to the default font, changing line spacing, changing text to headings, opening help and print previews, checking spelling and grammar, inserting dates and times, and saving and printing documents.

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Essential Keyboard Shortcuts

This document lists keyboard shortcuts for formatting and editing text in Microsoft Word. It includes shortcuts for selecting all text, changing text formatting like bold, italics and underline, cutting and pasting text, undoing and redoing actions, changing paragraph alignment and indentation, changing font size and style, navigating text with arrow keys and by word or paragraph, deleting words, resetting text to the default font, changing line spacing, changing text to headings, opening help and print previews, checking spelling and grammar, inserting dates and times, and saving and printing documents.

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Shortcut Keys Description

Ctrl + A Select all contents of the page.

Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection.

Ctrl + C Copy selected text.

Ctrl + X Cut selected text.

Ctrl + P Open the print window.

Ctrl + F Open find box.

Ctrl + I Italic highlighted selection.

Ctrl + K Insert link.

Ctrl + T Create a hanging indent.

Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection.

Ctrl + V Paste.

Ctrl + Y Redo the last action performed.

Ctrl + Z Undo last action.

Ctrl + L Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen.

Ctrl + E Aligns the line or selected text to the center of the screen.

Ctrl + R Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen.

Ctrl + M Indent the paragraph.

Ctrl + Shift + F Change the font.

Ctrl + Shift + > Increase selected font +1pts up to 12pt and then increases 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 + 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.

Ctrl + F1 Open the Task Pane.

F1 Open Help.

Alt + Ctrl + F2 Open new document.

Ctrl + F2 Display the print preview.

Shift + F3 Change the text in Microsoft Word from upper to lower case or a capital letter at the
beginning of every word.

Shift + Insert Paste.

F4 Repeat the last action performed (Word 2000+)

F5 Open the find, replace, and go to window in Microsoft Word.

Ctrl + Shift + F6 Opens to another open Microsoft Word document.

F7 Spell and grammar check selected text and/or document.

Shift + F7 Runs a Thesaurus check on the word highlighted.


F12 Save as.

Shift + F12 Save.

Ctrl + Shift + F12 Prints the document.

Alt + Shift + D Insert the current date.

Alt + Shift + T Insert the current time.

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