Command
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Description
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[CTRL] Z
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Undo my favourite command. Keep pressing it to go back until your last save.
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[CTRL] s
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You need to save often. even more then autosave and autorecovery. Also make a second copy frequently like to a USB thumb drive.
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[CTRL] & [Home]
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Move insertion point to the begining of the document. Add the [Shift] key and select from your insertion point to the begining of the document.
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[CTRL] & [End]
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Move insertion point to the End of the document. Add the [Shift] key and select from your insertion point to the end of the document.
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[CTRL] & [PageUp]
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Go to the top of the preceding page
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[CTRL] & [PageDown]
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Go to the top of the next page,
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[Alt] f
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Press [Alt] plus the letter that's underlined to open a menu, such as File, Edit, View. Then just press the underlined letter of the command you want to select on the keyboard. This is alot faster then using your mouse.
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[Shift] Arrow keys
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Hold down [Shift] and press an arrow key to select text in the desired direction.
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CTRL][Shift] Arrow keys
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To select a word at a time
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CTRL Click
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Select a sentence. Hold down [Ctrl] and click anywhere in the sentence.
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Triple-click
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Triple-click within the paragraph or move the mouse just past the left margin of the paragraph. When the pointer changes to a right-pointing arrow, double-click to select the whole paragraph.
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[Alt] #pad 5
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Select an entire table, click anywhere in the table and, with Num Lock off, press [Alt]5 on the numeric keyboard.
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[Ctrl] double-click
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Select multiple, non-contiguous words– Select a word, then hold [Ctrl] and double-click an additional word or words.
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[CTRL] A
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Select an entire document
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[CTRL] .
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Grow or shrink font size – Select the text first . makes it bigger , makes it smaller (you can also use [ ])
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[Shift] [F7]
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Word's built-in thesaurus.
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CTRL [F6]
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If you work with a lot of open, overlapping documents, here's a quick way to cycle between them. [Ctrl][Shift][F6] will jump you backward.
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