Microsoft Word and Excel have remained two of the widely used Office programs. And even if you are familiar with them, you might still be surprised by the variety of keyboard shortcuts that you can use to make things more convenient. These are some of the most helpful Word and Excel shortcut keys that you should start using right now:
WORD SHORTCUT KEYS:
Ctrl + A – Select all contents of the page
Ctrl + B – Bold the highlighted selection
Ctrl + C – Copy selected text
Ctrl + X – Cut selected text
Ctrl + N – Open a new or blank document
Ctrl + O – Open options
Ctrl + P – Open the print window
Ctrl + F – Open find box to search text within the document
Ctrl + I – Italicise the highlighted selection
Ctrl + K – Insert a link
Ctrl + U – Underline the highlighted selection
Ctrl + V – Paste the copied data
Ctrl + Y – Redo the last action performed
Ctrl + Z – Undo the last action
Ctrl + G – Find and replace options
Ctrl + H – Find and replace options
Ctrl + J – Justify paragraph alignment
Ctrl + L – Align selected text or line to the left
Ctrl + Q – Align selected paragraph to the left
Ctrl + E – Align selected text or line to the centre
Ctrl + R – Align selected text or line to the right
Ctrl + M – Indent the paragraph
Ctrl + T – Hanging indent
Ctrl + D – Font options
Ctrl + Shift + F – Change the font
Ctrl + Shift + > – Increase selected font +1
Ctrl + ] – Increase selected font +1
Ctrl + [ – Decrease selected font -1
Ctrl + Shift + * – View or hide non printing characters.
Ctrl + (Left arrow) – Move one word to the left
Ctrl + (Right arrow) – Move one word to the right
Ctrl + (Up arrow) – Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph
Ctrl + (Down arrow) – Move to the end of the paragraph
Ctrl + Del – Delete the word to the right of the cursor
Ctrl + Backspace – Delete the word to the left of the cursor
Ctrl + End – Move cursor to end of the document
Ctrl + Home – Move the cursor to the beginning of the document
Ctrl + Space – Reset highlighted text to the default font
Ctrl + 1 – Add single-space lines
Ctrl + 2 – Add double-space lines
Ctrl + 5 – Add a 1.5-line spacing
Ctrl + Alt + 1 – Change text to heading 1
Ctrl + Alt + 2 – Change text to heading 2
Ctrl + Alt + 3 – Change text to heading 3
F1 – Open the help function
Shift + F3 – Change case of selected text
Shift + Insert – Paste
F4 – Repeat the last action performed (Word 2000+)
F7 – Spell check selected text and/or document
Shift + F7 – Activate the thesaurus
F12 – Save as
Ctrl + S – Save
Shift + F12 – Save
Alt + Shift + D – Insert the current date
Alt + Shift + T – Insert the current time
Ctrl + W – Close document