Word Hotkeys
- Below is a listing of the more commonly used shortcut keys in Microsoft word.
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Hot Key
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Description
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Ctrl + A
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Select all the text
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Ctrl + N
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Open a new, blank document
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Ctrl + C
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Copy the selected text
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Ctrl + V
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Paste the selected text
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Ctrl + S
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Save the document
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Ctrl + Z
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Undo an action
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Ctrl + Y
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Redo an action
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Ctrl + P
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Print the document
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Ctrl + X
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Cut the selected text
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Ctrl + B
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Apply or remove bold format
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Ctrl + I
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Apply or remove italic format
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Ctrl + D
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Open the font preferences window
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Ctrl + E
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Align the line or selected text to the
center of the screen
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Ctrl + F
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Find Box
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Ctrl + W
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Close the active window or document
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Alt + F, A
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Save As
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Ctrl + O
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Opens the dialog box or page for
selecting a file to open
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Ctrl + R
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Align the text to the Right
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Ctrl + U
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Underlline the selected text
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Ctrl + Shift + L
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Quickly create the bullet point
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Ctrl + Shift + >
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Increase selected font size
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Ctrl + Shift + <
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Decrease selected font size
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Ctrl + Alt + 1
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Change text to heading 1
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Ctrl + Alt + 2
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Change text to heading 2
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Ctrl + Alt + 3
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Change text to heading 3
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Ctrl + Left Arrow
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Moves one word to the left
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Ctrl + Right Arrow
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Moves one word to the right
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Ctrl + Up Arrow
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Moves to the beginning of the line or
paragraph
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Ctrl + Down Arrow
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Moves to the end of the paragraph
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Ctrl + Backspace
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Deletes word to the left of cursor
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Ctrl + End
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Moves the cursor to the end of the
document
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Ctrl + Home
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Moves the cursor to the beginning of
the document
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Ctrl + Spacebar
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Reset highlighted text to the default
font
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Shift + F7
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Runs a Thesaurus check on the selected
word
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Shift + Alt + T
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Insert current Time
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Shift + Alt + D
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Insert current Date
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Ctrl + 1
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Single space line
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Ctrl + 2
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Double space line
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Ctrl + 5
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1.5 line spacing
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