This document provides shortcuts for formatting text and navigating documents in Microsoft Word. It lists keyboard shortcuts for bolding, italicizing, underlining text as well as increasing and decreasing font size. Additional shortcuts allow changing case, subscripting, superscripting text and justifying paragraphs. Navigation and editing shortcuts like copy, cut, paste, select all, and moving between words and paragraphs are also included. The document emphasizes that memorizing CTRL+S to save a document is most important.
2. Font Formatting Microsoft Word
Hotkeys
Try some of these and see if you don¡¯t
agree that it speeds things up.
Select the text you want to format and
use one of these key combinations.
3. ? Boldface: CTRL+B
? Italicize: CTRL+I
? Underline: CTRL+U
? Increase font size:
CTRL+SHIFT+.
? Decrease font size:
CTRL+SHIFT+,
To change capitalization or
case, select a word or
sentence and use this key
4. ? Change case: SHIFT+F3
These key combinations
will subscript and
superscript the text:
? Subscript: CTRL+=
? Superscript:CTRL+SHIFT+
=
5. Paragraph Indentation and Justification
Hotkeys
Click your mouse on the paragraph to
make these formatting changes.
? Left-justify the paragraph: CTRL+L
? Right-justify the paragraph: CTRL+R
? Full-justify the paragraph: CTRL+J
? Center the paragraph: CTRL+E
? Increase indent: CTRL+M
? Decrease indent: CTRL+SHIFT+M
? Hanging indent: CTRL+T
? Hanging indent off: CTRL+SHIFT+T
6. Navigation and Editing Microsoft Word
Hotkeys
Once you¡¯re done typing, hotkeys can
speed editing, too.
? Copy: CTRL+C
? Cut: CTRL+X
? Paste: CTRL+V
? Select all: CTRL+A
? Select next word: CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
? Select previous word: CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
? Select next paragraph: CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN
? Select previous paragraph: CTRL+SHIFT+UP
7. Finally, if you memorize no other key
combination, remember this one:
CTRL+S to Save Document. Although
you can have Word automatically save
an AutoRecover version of your
document every few minutes, it never
hurts to save the document yourself
frequently.