MS Word Shortcut Keys

Ctrl C

Copy selected text

Ctrl Shift >

Increase font size by 1 pt

Ctrl M

Indent the paragraph

Ctrl I

Italicize

Ctrl L

Left Align

Ctrl N

New Document

F1

Open Help

F5

Open the Find, Replace, and Go To window in Microsoft Word.

Ctrl D

Opens the "Font" dialogue box

Ctrl U

Underline the selected text

Ctrl shift *

View or hide non printing character

Ctrl Shift L

bullet point

Shift alt t

current time

Ctrl Shift D

double underline

Ctrl O

open file

Ctrl F1

open task pane

Ctrl =

subscript

Ctrl V

to paste

Ctrl / C

Cent sign (¢)

Ctrl E

Center Align

Ctrl Shift F

Change Font Style

Shift F3

Change case of the letters.

Ctrl alt 1

Changes text to heading 1

Ctrl alt 2

Changes text to heading 2

shift enter

Create soft break instead of a new paragraph

Ctrl X

Cuts selected text

Ctrl Shift [

Decrease selected font -1

Ctrl Shift >

Decrease selected font -1pt if 12pts or lower and then decreases font by +2pts

Ctrl Del

Deleted word to the right cursor

Ctrl Backspace

Deletes word to left of cursor.

Ctrl K

Insert Hyperlink

Ctrl + + <char>

Insert a character with an accent (grave) mark, where <char> is the character you want. For example, if you wanted an accented è you would use Ctrl + ' + e as your shortcut key. To reverse the accent mark use the opposite accent mark, often on the tilde key.

ctrl left arrow

Moves one word to the left at a time

ctrl right arrow

Moves one word to the right at a time

Ctrl Home

Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document

Ctrl End

Moves the cursor to the end of the document

Ctrl F

Open find box

Ctrl alt F2

Open new document

Ctrl P

Opens the "Print" dialogue box

Ctrl F2

Print Preview

Ctrl shift F12

Prints the documents

Ctrl Y

Redo the last action

F4

Repeat the last action performed (Word 2000+)

ctrl spacebar

Reset highlighted text to the default font

Ctrl R

Right Align

F12

Save As

Shift F12

Save the document like Ctrl S

Alt, F, A

Save the document under a different file name.

Ctrl S / Shift F12

Saves a document

Shift F7

Thesaurus/ Research

Ctrl Z

Undo last action

Ctrl Shift A

all caps

Ctrl B

bold text

Ctrl alt 3

changes text to heading 3

Ctrl W

closes document

Shift alt D

current date

Ctrl 2

double spacing

Ctrl Shift E

enable or disable revision tracking

Ctrl T

hanging indent

Ctrl Shift ]

increase selected font +1pt

Ctrl alt t

insert trademark ™

Ctrl J

justified alignment

Ctrl down arrow

move to the end of the paragraph

Ctrl up arrow

moves to the beginning of the line or paragraph

Ctrl A

select all

Ctrl 1

set ingle space

Ctrl 5

sets 1.5 spacing

Alt X

show the unicode code of a highlighted character

F7

spell check and grammar check

ctrl shift =

superscript

Ctrl shift F6

switches to another open Microsoft Word document

shift insert

to paste

Ctrl 0

toggles 6 pts of spacing above the paragraph