Word Keyboard shortcuts

Updated 2010.06.08

The Biggies

·   Help!

F1

·   Shortcut menu

Right-click

·   Undo

Ctrl+Z

·   Show/Hide

Ctrl+*

Cut, copy, paste

·     Cut (")

Ctrl+X

·     Copy

Ctrl+C

·     Paste (Ú)

Ctrl+V

These keys are also next to each other on the keyboard.

Character formatting

·     Bold

Ctrl+B

·     Underline

Ctrl+U

·     Italic

Ctrl+I

·     Undoing AutoCorrect and AutoText:

Backspace

·     Increase text size

Ctrl+]

·     Decrease text size

Ctrl+[

File Operations

·   New document

Ctrl+N

·   Open

Ctrl+O

·   Save

Ctrl+S

·   Print

Ctrl+P

·   Close Window

Ctrl+W

Navigation

·      Beg. of line

Home

·      End of line

End

·      Beg. of document

Ctrl+Home

·      End of document

Ctrl+End

·      Next word

Ctrl+RightArrow

·      Previous word

Ctrl+LeftArrow

·      Previous screen

PgUp

·      Next screen

PgDn

·      Previous page

Ctrl+PgUp

·      Next page

Ctrl+PgDn

Selection

·         To select any text, hold the shift key down while applying any navigation keys.

·       Select All:

Ctrl+A

·       Select a word

Double-Click

·       Select a paragraph

Triple-Click

Delete text commands

The Delete key and the Backspace key do NOT behave the same way!

·  Delete character LEFT of cursor

Backspace

·  Delete character RIGHT of cursor

Delete

Searching

·   To Find text:                                Ctrl+F

Breaks

·   Line Break ......................... Shift+Enter

·   Paragraph Break............................ Enter

·   Page Break........................... Ctrl+Enter

Paragraph formatting

Alignment

·     Left justify

Ctrl+L

·     Right justify

Ctrl+R

·     Center justify (Equal margins)

Ctrl+E

·     Justify fully

Ctrl+J

 

Line spacing

·    Single space

Ctrl+1

·    Double space

Ctrl+2

·    1.5 space

Ctrl+5

 

Margins

·     Increase Margins

Ctrl+M

·     Decrease Margins

Shift+Ctrl+M

·     Increase hanging indenT

Ctrl+T

·     Decrease hanging indenT

Shift+Ctrl+T

 

Space between paragraphs

·         Click on the Page Layout tab

·         IN the Paragraph group, click on Spacing Before or Spacing After.

 

Change first line indent:
Grab the first line indent marker on the ruler: