Top 45 Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys And Functions

Microsoft word is one of the best office application that is used for word processing and document creation. Many utilize Microsoft Word for various purposes. In other to make your work using while utilizing the application, Microsoft Word has numerous shortcut keys that can be utilized to carry certain functions. We will bring you 45 Microsoft Word Easy shortcut Keys And there functions. These shortcut keys would make your work easier, faster and less stressful.

These commonly used shortcut keys in Microsoft Word will help you in carrying out your work easy. These functions will make your work easy and save you time and help you carry out your work efficiently and effectively.  Many of the shortcut keys are easy to use and some are keys that need you to practice them to remember and use them. These keys range from the ones you are familiar with and the less obvious ones. So, below we bring to you 45 Microsoft Word Shortcut keys and functions.

45 Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys And Functions
  

1 Ctrl + A Select all contents of the page.

2 Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection.

3 Ctrl + C Copy selected text.

4 Ctrl + D Open the font preferences window.

5 Ctrl + E Aligns the line or selected text to the center of the screen.

6 Ctrl + F Open and box.

7 Ctrl + I Italic highlighted selection.

8 Ctrl + J Aligns the selected text or line to justify the screen.

9 Ctrl + K Insert a hyperlink.

10 Ctrl + L Aligns the line or selected text to the left of the screen.

11 Ctrl + M Indent the paragraph.

12 Ctrl + N Opens new, blank document window.

13 Ctrl + O Opens the dialog box or page for selecting a file to open.

14 Ctrl + P Open the print window.

15 Ctrl + R Aligns the line or selected text to the right of the screen.

16 Ctrl + S Save the open document. Just like Shift + F12.

17 Ctrl + T Create a hanging indent.

18 Ctrl + U Underline the selected text.

19 Ctrl + V Paste.

20 Ctrl + W Close the currently open document.

21 Ctrl + X Cut selected text.

22 Ctrl + Y Redo the last action performed.

23 Ctrl + Z Undo last action.

24 Ctrl + Shift + L Quickly create a bullet point.

25 Ctrl + Shift + F Change the font.

26 Ctrl + <left arrow> Moves one word to the left.

27 Ctrl + <right arrow> Moves one word to the right.

28 Ctrl + <up arrow> Moves to the beginning of the line or paragraph.

29 Ctrl + <down arrow> Moves to the end of the paragraph.

30 Ctrl + Del Deletes word to right of cursor.

31 Ctrl + Backspace Deletes word to left of cursor.

32 Ctrl + End Moves the cursor to the end of the document.

33 Ctrl + Home Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document.

34 Ctrl + Space bar Reset highlighted text to the default font.

35 Ctrl + 1 Single-space lines.

36 Ctrl + 2 Double-space lines.

37 Ctrl + 5 1.5-line spacing.

38 Ctrl + Alt + 1 Changes text to heading 1.

39 Ctrl + Alt + 2 Changes text to heading 2.

40 Ctrl + Shift + > Increases the selected text size by one.

41 Ctrl + Shift + < Decreases the selected text size by one.

42 Ctrl + Shift + F6 Switches to another open Microsoft Word document.

43 Ctrl + Shift + F12 Prints the document.

44 F1 Open Help.

45 Shift + F7 Runs a Thesaurus check on the selected