In this article, I will disclose you all the shortcuts of M.S Word. Actually, I am published this because one of my friends want to know that question in Quora. This is a very common thing that we all know M.S Word and most probably it’s all features. But it’s good to know all the shortcut key’s of it because it really helps us to work when we work on officially. So here is the article about Word Shortcut, presented by Technosys360.com
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It’s also very important to all school student and office workers who are mostly based on M.S Word. So without waste any time I will give all the details of it. Just read the details below.
Let’s begin…
Command Name | Keys |
All Caps | Ctrl+Shift+A |
Apply List Bullet | Ctrl+Shift+L |
AutoFormat | Alt+Ctrl+K |
Auto Text | F3 |
Bold | Ctrl+B |
Cancel | ESC |
Center Para | Ctrl+E |
Change Case | Shift+F3 |
Clear | Del |
Close or Exit | Alt+F4 |
Copy | Ctrl+C |
Create Auto Text | Alt+F3 |
Cut | Ctrl+X |
Double Underline | Ctrl+Shift+D |
Find | Ctrl+F |
Help | F1 |
Hyperlink | Ctrl+K |
Indent | Ctrl+M |
Italic | Ctrl+I |
Justify Para | Ctrl+J |
Merge Field | Alt+Shift+F |
New Document | Ctrl+N |
Open | Ctrl+O |
Outline | Alt+Ctrl+O |
Overtype | Insert |
Page | Alt+Ctrl+P |
Page Break | Ctrl+Return |
Paste | Ctrl+V |
Paste Format | Ctrl+Shift+V |
Print | Ctrl+P |
Print Preview | Ctrl+F2 |
Redo | Alt+Shift+Backspace |
Redo or Repeat | Ctrl+Y |
Save | Ctrl+S |
Select All | Ctrl+A |
Small Caps | Ctrl+Shift+K |
Style | Ctrl+Shift+S |
Subscript | Ctrl+= |
Superscript | Ctrl+Shift+= |
Task Pane | Ctrl+F1 |
Time Field | Alt+Shift+T |
Underline | Ctrl+U |
Undo | Ctrl+Z |
Update Fields | F9 |
Word Count List | Ctrl+Shift+G |

Function Keys of word shortcut |
F1 | Get Help or visit Microsoft Office Online. |
F2 | Move text or graphics. |
F3 | Insert an AutoText (AutoText: A storage location for text or graphics you want to use again, such as a standard contract clause or a long distribution list. Each selection of text or graphics is recorded as an AutoText entry and is assigned a unique name.) entry (after Microsoft Word displays the entry). |
F4 | Repeat the last action. |
F5 | Choose the Go To command (Edit menu). |
F6 | Go to the next pane or frame. |
F7 | Choose the Spelling command (Tools menu). |
F8 | Extend a selection. |
F9 | Update selected fields. |
F10 | Activate the menu bar. |
F11 | Go to the next field. |
F12 | Choose the Save As command (File menu). |

SHIFT+Function key of word shortcut |
SHIFT+F1 | Start context-sensitive Help or reveal formatting. |
SHIFT+F2 | Copy text. |
SHIFT+F3 | Change the case of letters. |
SHIFT+F4 | Repeat a Find or Go To action. |
SHIFT+F5 | Move to the last change. |
SHIFT+F6 | Go to the previous pane or frame. |
SHIFT+F7 | Choose the Thesaurus command (Tools menu, Language submenu). |
SHIFT+F8 | Shrink a selection. |
SHIFT+F9 | Switch between a field code and its result. |
SHIFT+F10 | Display a shortcut menu. |
SHIFT+F11 | Go to the previous field. |
SHIFT+F12 | Choose the Save command (File menu). |

CTRL+Function Key of word shortcut |
CTRL+F2 | Choose the Print Preview command (File menu). |
CTRL+F3 | Cut to the Spike (Spike: A special AutoText entry that stores multiple deletions. Microsoft Word appends one item to another until you paste the contents as a group in a new location in your document. You can also use the Microsoft Office Clipboard to get the same result.) |
CTRL+F4 | Close the window. |
CTRL+F5 | Restore the document window size (for example, after maximizing it). |
CTRL+F6 | Go to the next window. |
CTRL+F7 | Choose the Move command (title bar shortcut menu). |
CTRL+F8 | Choose the Size command (title bar shortcut menu). |
CTRL+F9 | Insert an empty field. |
CTRL+F10 | Maximize the document window. |
CTRL+F11 | Lock a field. |
CTRL+F12 | Choose the Open command (File menu). |

CTRL+SHIFT+Function Key of word shortcut |
CTRL+SHIFT+F3 | Insert the contents of the Spike (Spike: A special AutoText entry that stores multiple deletions. Microsoft Word appends one item to another until you paste the contents as a group in a new location in your document. You can also use the Microsoft Office Clipboard to get the same result.) |
CTRL+SHIFT+F5 | Edit a bookmark. |
CTRL+SHIFT+F6 | Go to the previous window. |
CTRL+SHIFT+F7 | Update linked information in a Microsoft Word source document. |
CTRL+SHIFT+F8 | Extend a selection or block (then press an arrow key). |
CTRL+SHIFT+F9 | Unlink a field. |
CTRL+SHIFT+F11 | Unlock a field. |
CTRL+SHIFT+F12 | Choose the Print command (File menu). |

ALT+Function Key at word shortcut |
ALT+F1 | Go to the next field. |
ALT+F3 | Create an AutoText (AutoText: A storage location for text or graphics you want to use again, such as a standard contract clause or a long distribution list. Each selection of text or graphics is recorded as an AutoText entry and is assigned a unique name.) entry. |
ALT+F4 | Quit Microsoft Word. |
ALT+F5 | Restore the program window size. |
ALT+F6 | Move from an open dialog box back to the document for dialog boxes such as Find and Replace that support this behavior. |
ALT+F7 | Find the next misspelling or grammatical error. The Check spelling as you type check box must be selected (Tools menu, Options dialog box, Spelling & Grammar tab). |
ALT+F8 | Run a macro. |
ALT+F9 | Switch between all field codes and their results. |
ALT+F10 | Maximize the program window. |
ALT+F11 | Display Microsoft Visual Basic code. |

ALT+SHIFT+Function Key in word shortcut |
ALT+SHIFT+F1 | Go to the previous field. |
ALT+SHIFT+F2 | Choose the Save command (File menu). |
ALT+SHIFT+F9 | Run GOTOBUTTON or MACROBUTTON from the field that displays the field results. |
ALT+SHIFT+F10 | Display the menu or message for a smart tag. If more than one smart tag is present, switch to the next smart tag and display its menu or message. |
ALT+SHIFT+F11 | Start the Microsoft Script Editor |

CTRL+ALT+Function Key in M.S Word Shortcut |
CTRL+ALT+F1 | Display Microsoft System Information. |
CTRL+ALT+F2 | Open command (File menu). |
I think this is more than enough for all who are belongs to school and college. It also helps all office workers who are work on M.S Word. If you have any other shortcut key except all these, please let us know. We will update that in our next release. That also help all the reader of this article.
Ref: Microsoft, Wikipedia.
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For those who think they know it all. Even I didn’t know half the short cut keys and I always use MS Word for my work. Again a very helpful post
Welcome… It makes me happy to know your feelings about this post. Anyway thanks to sharing your thoughts with my audience.
Previously I thought I know all the shortcut key of ms office but after saw your article I’m totally surprised , thanks for break my mistake.