This document lists keyboard shortcuts for common formatting and navigation tasks in a word processing program. It includes shortcuts for selecting all or portions of text, formatting text as bold, italic, or underlined, cutting and copying text, undoing and redoing actions, navigating by paragraphs, words, or lines, and opening print and find functions. Common shortcuts listed are Ctrl+A to select all, Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+C to copy, and Ctrl+V to paste.
This document lists keyboard shortcuts for common formatting and navigation tasks in a word processing program. It includes shortcuts for selecting all or portions of text, formatting text as bold, italic, or underlined, cutting and copying text, undoing and redoing actions, navigating by paragraphs, words, or lines, and opening print and find functions. Common shortcuts listed are Ctrl+A to select all, Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+C to copy, and Ctrl+V to paste.
This document lists keyboard shortcuts for common formatting and navigation tasks in a word processing program. It includes shortcuts for selecting all or portions of text, formatting text as bold, italic, or underlined, cutting and copying text, undoing and redoing actions, navigating by paragraphs, words, or lines, and opening print and find functions. Common shortcuts listed are Ctrl+A to select all, Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+C to copy, and Ctrl+V to paste.
Ctrl + C -- Copy selected text. Ctrl + X -- Cut selected text. Ctrl + N -- Open new/blank document. Ctrl + O -- Open options. Ctrl + P -- Open the print window. Ctrl + F -- Open find box. Ctrl+l - Single-spacing. Ctrl+5 - 1.5-line spacing. Ctrl+2 - Double-spacing. Ctrl+0 (zero) - Add or remove 12 points of space before a paragraph. Align and format paragraphs
To do this Press
Remove a paragraph Ctrl+Shift+M
indent.
Create a hanging indent. Ctrl+T
Remove a hanging indent. Ctrl+Shift+T
Remove paragraph Ctrl+Q
formatting.
Navigate the document
To do this Press Find text. Ctrl+F Move the Alt+Up arrow cursor up by key one paragraph. Move the Alt+Down cursor down arrow key by one paragraph. Move the Alt+Left arrow cursor left by key one word. Move the Alt+Right arrow cursor right key by one word. Move the Ctrl+Left arrow cursor to the key beginning of the current line. Move the Ctrl+Right cursor to the arrow key end of the current line. Select text. Shift+Arrow keys Select the Shift+Alt+Up paragraph arrow key above. Select the Shift+Alt+Down paragraph arrow key below. Select the Shift+Alt+Left word to the arrow key left. Select the Shift+Alt+Right word to the arrow key right. Select from Shift+Ctrl+Left the current arrow key position to the beginning of the line. Select from Shift+Ctrl+Right the current arrow key position to the end of the line. Select all Ctrl+A document content.
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Edit and format the document
To do this Press Undo the previous Ctrl+Z action. Redo the previous Ctrl+Y action, if possible. Cut the selected content Ctrl+X to the Clipboard. Copy the selected Ctrl+C content to the Clipboard. Paste the content from Ctrl+V the Clipboard. Bold the selected text. Ctrl+B Italicize the selected Ctrl+I text. Underline the selected Ctrl+U text.