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Handy Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft's Word.

Microsoft Word is probably one of the tools you use mostly at work or at home to write letters, created documents, or even finish that book you've been dreaming about. You might sometimes feel that writing all that much is taking too long and that it's too frustrating. So I have just the thing to improve your Word skills.

These keyboard shortcuts are fun little tricks that will help you work faster much easier. Many of them will also work on other programs such as Outlook and Excel so they are really good tips to know for just about anyone!

General document management:
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Open new document
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Open existing document
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Close current document, but don’t close Word
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Save document
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Save document as…
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Print document
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Switch between open Word documents
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.+ The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Count the number of words in a document
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Close Word (this works for any program so be careful when using it)

 

Navigating inside the document:
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Move one letter left or right
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Move one word left or right
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Go to the end or the beginning of the line
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Move one paragraph up or down
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Move one page up or down
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Go to the end or the beginning of the document
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Search the document for letters or words

 

Choosing a text: (also known as marking or highlighting)
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Expand the highlight one letter to the left or to the right

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.+ The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. /

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Expand the highlight one word to the left or to the right
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Expand the highlight to the end of the line or back to the beginning
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. +The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Expand the highlight one line up or down
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Expand the highlight until the place where you click your mouse, to exit this mode press -   The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Highlight all the text in the document

 

Text editing:
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Copy marked text
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Cut marked text
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Paste the text that was copied or cut
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Make the text bold
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Make the text italic
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Underline the text
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.+ The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Only underline the text
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.+ The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Double underline
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. / The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Increase or decrease the size of marked text

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Add a hyper-link

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Open a new page in the document

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Undo last action

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Redo last action

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Move text to the left

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Move text to the right

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Move text to the center

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. + The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word. Align text to both sides (only when the text is marked)
The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Delete one letter backwards

The Most Useful Keyboard Tricks for MS Word.

Delete one letter forwards

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