When it comes to writing texts, whether for school or work, the most popular software is word. This program allows us not only to write, but to add images, tables, format sheets and much more. But if you want to use it in the most efficient way, you must know the best keyboard shortcuts.
We are sure that you have sometimes used combinations like Ctrl+C to copy something, but these types of shortcuts go far beyond these basic functions, you can from opening a document to formatting it and sending it to print.
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Become an expert in the use of Word and learn about some of the most useful shortcuts.
Word's history
Before going to the shortcuts, we will share a bit of the history of this program that was developed by the Microsoft company, and is included in the Microsoft Office office suite.
It was created by Richard Brodie for the IBM computer in 1981, its great innovation is that it allowed users to view the document as it would look when printed.
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A couple of years later it was designed to be used in MS-DOS. Its first version for Windows came out in 1989. Today it is one of the most widely used word processors in the world and it has versions for different operating systems and can even be used from the Internet.
Despite being used by millions of people daily, not everyone knows its tricks and this time we are going to share some of them with you.
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Shortcuts in Word
Take full advantage of this tool, forget about the mouse and the taskbar, with these keyboard shortcuts you will be more productive.
- Open a document: Ctrl+A
- Create a new document: Ctrl+U
- Save the document: Ctrl+G
- Cut selected content on the Clipboard: Ctrl+X
- Copy the selected content to the Clipboard: Ctrl+C
- Paste the contents of the Clipboard: Ctrl+V
- Select all document content: Ctrl+E
- Apply bold formatting to text: Ctrl+N
- Italicize text: Ctrl+K
- Apply underlining to text: Ctrl+S
- Center the text: Ctrl+T
- Align text to the left: Ctrl+Q
- Align text to the right: Ctrl+D
- Cancel a command: Esc
- Undo the previous action: Ctrl+Z
- Redo the previous action: Ctrl+Y
- Adjust zoom magnification Alt+W,Q and then use the key tabs in the dialog Zoom to go to the value you want
- open tab Start to use common formatting commands, paragraph styles, and the tool: Alt+N
- open tab Design To use themes, colors, and effects, such as page borders: Alt+S
- open tab Provision To work with page margins, page orientation, indentation, and spacing: Alt+P
- open tab Review to use the spell checkset review languages, and to track and review changes to your document: Alt+R
- Move the cursor one word to the left: Ctrl+Left Arrow Key
- Move the cursor one word to the right: Ctrl+Right Arrow Key
- Move the cursor to the end of the current line: End
- Move the cursor to the beginning of the current line: Start
- Move the cursor to the top of the screen: Ctrl+Alt+Page Up
- Move the cursor to the bottom of the screen: Ctrl+Alt+Page Down
- Move the cursor to the top of the next page: Ctrl+Page Down
- Move cursor to the top of the previous page: Ctrl+Page Up
- Move the cursor to the end of the document: Ctrl+End
- Move the cursor to the beginning of the document: Ctrl+Home
- Print the document: Ctrl+P
- Switch to print preview: Ctrl+Alt+I
- Delete one word to the left: Ctrl+Backspace
- Delete one word to the right: Ctrl+Delete
- Justify the paragraph: Ctrl+J
- Indent the paragraph: Ctrl+M
- Apply a line spacing of 1.5 lines in the paragraph: Ctrl+5
- Insert a page break: Ctrl+Enter
GDA / El Universal / Mexico
