Keyboard Shorcuts for Microsoft Word
1 Document actions
- Open a file CTRL+O
- New file CTRL+N
- Close a file CTRL+W
- Save As F12
- Save CTRL+S or SHIFT+F12
- Print Preview CTRL+F2
- Print CTRL+P
- Show/Hide paragraph symbols CTRL+*
- Spelling and grammar F7
- Help F1
- Find CTRL+F
- Replace CTRL+H
- Go To CTRL+G
- Cursor movement Select all - entire document CTRL+A
- Select from cursor to beginning of line SHIFT+Home
- Select from cursor to end of line SHIFT+END
- Go to beginning of line HOME
- Go to end of line END
- Go to beginning of document CTRL+Home
- Go to end of document CTRL+End
2 Formatting
- Cut CTRL+X
- Copy CTRL+C
- Paste CTRL+V
- Undo CTRL+Z
- Redo CTRL+Y
- Format painter CTRL+SHIFT+C
- Left alignment CTRL+L
- Center alignment CTRL+E
- Right alignment CTRL+R
- Justified CTRL+J
- Delete previous word CTRL+Backspace
- Apply bulleted list CTRL+SHIFT+L
- Indent CTRL+M
- Page break CTRL+Enter
3 Text Style
- Font face CTRL+SHIFT+F
- Font size CTRL+SHIFT+P
- Bold CTRL+B
- Italics CTRL+I
- Underline CTRL+U
- Double underline CTRL+SHIFT+D
- Word underline CTRL+SHIFT+W
- All caps CTRL+SHIFT+A
- Change case SHIFT+F3
- Subscript CTRL+=
- Superscript CTRL+SHIFT+=
- Make web hyperlink CTRL+K
4 Tables
- Go to next cell Tab
- Go to previous cell SHIFT+Tab
- Go to beginning of column ALT+PageUp
- Highlight to beginning of column ALT+SHIFT+PageUp
- Go to end of column ALT+PageDown
- Highlight to end of column ALT+SHIFT+PageDown
- Go to beginning of row ALT+Home
- Highlight to beginning of row ALT+SHIFT+Home
- Go to end of row ALT+End
- Highlight to end of row ALT+SHIFT+End
- Column break CTRL+SHIFT+Enter
5 Miscellaneous
- Copyright symbol - © ALT+CTRL+C
- Date field ALT+SHIFT+D
- Go to footnotes ALT+CTRL+F
- Show/Hide ¶ CTRL+SHIFT+8
- Thesaurus SHIFT+F7