All of the Best 55 Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts to skill up

If you’re the one whose Microsoft Word is a frequent companion, then you must know about the word keyboard shortcut to speed up the task. Here’s the collection of keyboard shortcuts, to simplify your work.

I managed to keep the most valuable set of shortcut keys, So go ahead and learn it!

How do I use the shortcut key?
Suppose we have to copy some text or file. The shortcut key is “Ctrl+c”.
To do so, you need to select the file, which you want to copy and then press and hold “Ctrl key” and press ‘c’ character from the keyboard, and the file is copied.

List of Microsoft word shortcut keys and their functions

1. To open Microsoft Word using Run dialogue follow simple steps. (There are many other ways to do this, but we are talking about keyboard So, let’s do with keyboard)

• Step 1. Windows key + R (this shortcut will open Run dialogue)
• Step 2. Write “winword.exe” or just “winword” in the textbox as shown in image and press enter key. And Microsoft Word will appear 😊

2. To create a new document:

Ctrl + n

3. To save a document: (Get used to this after every little task in Microsoft Word)
Ctrl + s

4. Move to the end of the current line:
End key

5. To select the entire document:
Ctrl + a

6. To select/highlight text:
Move the cursor at the text, where from you want to highlight/select the text then press and hold shift key and use left arrow key for left side selection by one character, and right arrow key for right-side selection by one character.

7. Extend selection to the end of the line :
Shift+End

8. Extend selection to the beginning of the line:
Shift+Home

9. To move the cursor one character to the left or right:

Left or Right Arrow key

10. To move one word to the left or right:

Ctrl + Left Arrow — to move one word left.

Ctrl + Right Arrow — to move one word right.

Hope you’ve discovered a few new keyboard shortcuts to make your life in Word a little simpler! For more such very useful keyboard shortcut key click here.