Just two hands are hardly fitting for the digital age.
That’s why keyboard shortcuts are important to learn and master.
It’s not a difficult skill, we have to just key in patience and practice.
Press theAltkey and you have them displayed on the Ribbon.
It’s just a matter of following the letters.
These keyboard shortcuts make Microsoft Office operations smooth, but it’s just the first level.
There are a few dozen more below the surface.
By the way, Microsoft Office Online has a short but greattraining courseon Word shortcut keys.
Also there are some commands or combination of commands for which there are no default shortcut keys.
So here’s how we go about bringing them all within the touch of a key.
Take this for instance -Sending an open Word document via email.
In the listings on the right, scroll down to a command calledFileSendMail.
Save the changes across all documents (the Normal template) or just the open one.
Click onAssignto complete the process.
Custom Word shortcut keys can also be set up forMacros, Styles, Fonts, Autotext, andCommon Symbols.
Explore the commands given for them under categories.
There are probably some which you use very frequently.
It will take a bit of time before you are silky smooth with them.
With a single step, we can print out the list and keep it close.
Here’s how to have a cheat sheet for our personalized shortcut keys.
press CTRL+P for the Print dialog box.
you might also go from the menu, but we are talking about shortcuts aren’t we?
From the dropdown forPrint What, selectKey assignments.
Click onOKto print out your keyboard shortcuts list.
Note:Only those key assignments that have been reassigned from their defaults will be printed.
For a person who uses MS Word a lot, shortcut use comes from practice or purpose.
For both, we have somereadymade cheat sheetsfor download.
Life isn’t meant for shortcuts but Microsoft Office productivity certainly is.
Are you up to speed with shortcuts or do your love your mouse more?
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