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In this article I am sharing some important and useful short cuts used in Microsoft Office
Word. There are lots of short cuts available in MS Word. However, all of them are not useful
in our day to day life word processing tasks. It is tedious to memorize all the shortcuts
available in MS Word.
Before reading this article, please open a page in MS Word in your Computer. Type or copy
paste some contents into the page.
Now try the following short cuts one by one and realize the operation. Now think how we
can keep it in our memory so that we can answer the questions related to shortcuts in Bank,
Insurance and other Govt. exams. Most of them are already known to you and a few are new.
Thank you.
DOCUMENT HANDLING
DOCUMENT VIEW
CURSOR MOVEMENT
1. Jump one character to the Left / to the Right- Arrow Left/Arrow Right
2. Jump one word to the left / to the right- Ctrl+Arrow Left/Ctrl+Arrow Right
3. Jump to the End of a line / Beginning of a line- End/Home
4. Jump one Line down / one Line down- Arrow Down/Arrow Up
5. Jump one Paragraph down / one Paragraph up- Ctrl+Arrow Down/ Ctrl+Arrow Up
6. Jump one Screen down/ one Screen up- Page Down/Page Up
7. Jump to End / to Beginning of document- Ctrl+End/Ctrl+Home
8. Go back to previously edited location in document (up to 4 places)- Alt+Ctrl+Z
TEXT SELECTION
1. Extend selection one character to the Right / to the Left- Shift+Arrow Right/Left
2. Extend selection to the End / to Beginning of a line- Shift+End/Shift+Home
3. Extend selection one line Down / one line Up- Shift+Arrow Down/Up
4. Extend selection one screen down / one screen up- Shift+Page Down/Up
5. Extend selection to end / to beginning of document- Ctrl+Shift+End/Home
6. Extend selection to end / to beginning of visible window- Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Page
Down/Up
7. Extend selection to entire document- Ctrl+A
TEXT STYLE
PARAGRAPH STYLE
UNDO REDO
COPY PASTE
1. Copy selected text or object- Ctrl+C
2. Cut selected text or object- Ctrl+X
3. Paste selected text or object- Ctrl+V
4. Copy text format (Size, Font and Style of the Text)-Ctrl+Shift+C
5. Paste text format (Size, Font and Style of the Text)- Ctrl+Shift+V
INSERT SYMBOL/OBJECT
DELETE
1. Delete one character to the right / to the left (or delete selection)- Delete/Backspace
2. Delete one word to the right / to the left- Ctrl+Delete/Ctrl+Backspace