Most important Key Board Short Keys of MS WORD every body should know

 

 What are key board short keys of MS WORD?

Key board short keys of MS WORD are two or more keys pressed together to perform an action which can also be done with your mouse.

Why do we use key board short keys of MS WORD?

As the name tells us that these are short keys, hence shortest way to perform an action which saves time.

Short keys of MS WORD?

Here are some handy and useful short keys of MS WORD

Ctrl + A                   to Select all the contents

Ctrl + B                   to Bold highlighted selected words

Ctrl + C                   to Copy selected content (saved in clipboard ready to paste somewhere else)

Ctrl + X                    to Cut the selected text (saved in clipboard you can also paste it somewhere else)

Ctrl + N                   to Open new  document

Ctrl + O                   to go to options

Ctrl + P                   to print the document

Ctrl + F                   to find some text in the document ( you can replace the same also)

Ctrl + I                     to Italicize selected text

Ctrl + K                   to Insert link in text

Ctrl + U                   to Underline selected text

Ctrl + V                   to  Paste (data already saved in clipboard)

Ctrl + Y                    to Redo the last action (it will repeat the last action again)

Ctrl + Z                    to Undo the last action (to undo changes, it will revert in last position)

Ctrl + G                   to  Find and replace

Ctrl + H                   to Find and replace

Ctrl + J                    to Justify paragraph alignment

Ctrl + L                    to Align selected text to left

Ctrl + Q                   to Align selected text to left

Ctrl + E                   to Align selected text to the center

Ctrl + R                   to Align selected text to the right

Ctrl + M                   to add indent the paragraph

Ctrl + I                     for Hanging indent

Ctrl + D                   for Font options

Ctrl + Shift + F         to Change the font of the text

Ctrl + Shift + >         to  Increase selected font  (+ 1 )

Ctrl + ]                     to Increase selected font (+ 1 )

Ctrl + Shift + <        to Decrease selected font (-1)

Ctrl + [                     to  Decrease selected font (-1)

Ctrl + Shift + *        to View or hide non printing characters

Ctrl + ←                  to Move one word to the left of the line

Ctrl + →                  to Move one word to the right of the line

Ctrl + ↑                    to  Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph

Ctrl + ↓                    to  Move to the end of the paragraph

Ctrl + Del                to Delete the word to right of cursor (word be deleted)

Ctrl + Backspace    to  Delete word to left of cursor (word be deleted)

Ctrl + End               to Move cursor to end of the opened document

Ctrl + Home            to  Move cursor to beginning of the opened document

Ctrl + Space            to Reset selected text to default font of MS WORD

Ctrl + 1                    for Single-space between lines

Ctrl + 2                    for Double-space between lines

Ctrl + 5                    for 1.5 space between lines

Ctrl + Alt + 1           to  Change selected  text to heading 1

Ctrl + Alt + 2           to  Change selected  text to heading 2

Ctrl + Alt + 3           to  Change selected  text to heading 3

F1                           to open help of MS WORD

Shift + F3                to  Change case of the selected text

Shift + Insert           to Paste (data already saved in clipboard)

F7                           for Spell check selected line

Shift + F7            to activate the thesaurus for the selected word (thesaurus tells you synonyms of that word so that you may choose best word)

F12                      to    Save as the document ( it gives you option to save document in other extensions rather than default which is .DOCX)

Ctrl + S                   to Save the document

Shift + F12              to Save the document

Alt + Shift + D         to Insert the current date

Alt + Shift + T         to Insert the current time

Ctrl + W          to Close the document