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