Keyboard shortcuts have a great bearing on the pace and productivity while working on Microsoft word. Use of shortcut keys may deeply influence your efficiency in producing word documents.
Microsoft word is the most popular software that we use to create and edit text documents. Every now and then a person needs to operate on word. Using keyboard shortcuts is the best way to catalyze your working speed on Microsoft word. Why not then, learn few shortcut keys that will always help you finish your work on time. Here we go,
Shortcut keys in Microsoft Word
Keyboard shortcuts
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Description
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Ctrl+O
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Opens an existing word document
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Home
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Move to the start of a line
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End
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Move to the end of a line
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Ctrl+Home
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Move the cursor to the beginning of the document
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Ctrl+End
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Move the cursor to the end of the document
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Pg up
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Move a page above in a document
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Pg down
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Move a page below in a document
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Ctrl+N
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Open a new empty word document
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Ctrl+A
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Select the whole document
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Ctrl+C
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Copy the selected text
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Ctrl+X
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Cut the selected text
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Ctrl+V
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Paste the copied or cut text
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Ctrl+backspace
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Delete the whole word to the left of cursor
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Ctrl+Del
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Delete the whole word to the right of cursor
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Ctrl+S
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Save the current document
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F12
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Open the save as window
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Ctrl+Z
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Undo the last action performed
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Ctrl+Y
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Redo the last undone action
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F4
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Repeat the last action performed in the latest versions of word
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Ctrl+B
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Bold the selected text
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Ctrl+I
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Turn the selected text into italic
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Ctrl+U
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Underline the selected text
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Ctrl+P
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Print the document
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Ctrl+F2
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Print preview of the document
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Ctrl+F1
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Display or hide the task pane
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Ctrl+left arrow
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Move to the left of a word
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Ctrl+right arrow
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Move to the right of a word
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Ctrl+upper arrow
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Move to the beginning of a paragraph
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Ctrl+down arrow
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Move to the end of a paragraph
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Ctrl+L
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Left alignment of the text
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Ctrl+R
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Right alignment of the text
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Ctrl+E
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Centre alignment of the text
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Ctrl+J
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Justified alignment of the text
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Ctrl+F
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Opens the find and replace box
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Ctrl+K
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Insert a hyperlink
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Ctrl+M
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Indent the current paragraph to the right
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Ctrl+Shift+M
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Indent the paragraph to the left
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Ctrl+T
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Create a hanging indent
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F7
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Spell check or grammar check the selection or the document
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F1
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Opens help
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Ctrl+1
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Insert single space between lines
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Ctrl+2
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Insert double space between lines
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Ctrl+5
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Insert 1.5 line space between lines
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Ctrl+Alt+1
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Changes the paragraph to heading 1
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Ctrl+Alt+2
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Changes the paragraph to heading2
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Ctrl+Alt+3
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Changes the paragraph to heading3
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Ctrl+Shift+L
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Creates a bulleted list
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Ctrl+Shift+F
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Changes the font
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Ctrl+[
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Decreases the font size by 1pt
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Ctrl+]
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Increases the font size by 1pt
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Ctrl+Shift+>
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Increases the font size by 2pt after 12pt, else 1pt
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Ctrl+Shift+<
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Decreases the font size by 2pt till 12pt, thereafter 1pt
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Shift+F3
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Changes the text to uppercase, lowercase or normal style
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Ctrl and +
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Changes the text to lowerscript
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Ctrl+Shift and +
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Changes the text to upperscript
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Ctrl+Alt+.
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Inserts three dots
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Shift+F7
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Runs a thesaurus check
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Shift+Enter
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Create a soft break
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Shift+Alt+D
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Inserts the current date
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Shift+Alt+T
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Inserts the current time
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Double click
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Used to select a complete word. On a blank line it is used to align the text to left, right or centre by clicking on appropriate parts of the line.
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Triple click
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Selects the whole line or paragraph
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Alt key
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This key activates the menubar in Microsoft word. Alt+H for home, Alt+N for insert, Alt+P for page layout, Alt+S for references, Alt+M for mailings, Alt+R for review, Alt+W for view, Alt+JT for design and Alt+JL for layout(All examples from word 2007).
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Hope, these few shortcut keys would make your working on Microsoft word a bit easier and refreshing. To find the keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft excel, please refer the post, “Use of shortcut keys in MS Exel”
