These are the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word. Ctrl + C is used to copy text or an object, Ctrl + X is used to cut selected text, and Ctrl + V is used to paste an item that is ...

Adding some key combinations to your shortcuts list lets you keep your hands on the keyboard and off your mouse. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

Back in 2008, I described how to copy and paste only a paragraph's formatting, not its text. Allen Wyatt’s WordTips site provides a great list of keyboard shortcuts for altering a paragraph’s spacing ...

Microsoft Word is a critical application in most businesses and home offices, but are you using it as efficiently as possible? If you have to keep reaching for the mouse, you're slowing yourself down ...

Reader Kang Na would like to customize his Word 2011 experience across computers. He writes: I’ve added some keyboard shortcut to Microsoft Word 2011 but would like to know the best way to back up and ...

If you have several pre-defined blocks of content in Microsoft Word, you can avoid the busy Quick Parts gallery by assigning keyboard shortcuts. In the article How to add an automated signature to a ...

If you often insert Emoji in a Word document or Outlook email, you might have to go through a lot of steps. Instead of doing such time-consuming tasks, you can create a keyboard shortcut for emoji in ...