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Microsoft Word 2013 Tutorials
Word 2013 Fundamentals / Keyboard Shortcuts
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In this lesson let's talk about some keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word. Keyboard shortcuts can make things go really quickly and efficiently for you, much faster than stopping and picking up the mouse to make a command happen. So let me share some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts with you. Now I have created a file, I'll include it in your Work Files. It's called keyboard shortcuts. You can just print it out and have it if you'd like and I also have it on my Skydrive. So if you want me to share it with you there just let me know and I'll be happy to do that. But we'll go through these quick and easy keyboard shortcuts. If you're not in the habit of using keyboard shortcuts what I would do is put a couple of the favorite shortcuts of yours on a notecard. Put it next to your computer and get into the habit of using those. Once you've mastered a couple of them, add a few more. So my first keyboard shortcut that I use all the time is Control S. That will let me save my document. Now it took me into Save As because I have not given this a filename yet. If I give it a filename yet. If I give it a filename and then hit Control S. From that point forward it will automatically just save my changes. Control N brings me up a brand new blank document, much quicker and easier than going into my backstage to get that. Control N, new document. Control Z is Undo. Should I go down here and highlight some information and change that. And maybe I don't like it. I can hit Control Z and hit it again and it will just back up through the different things I've done and remove that. I use that a lot with people who somehow accidentally delete areas of their document. And they tell me they have no idea where it went. So I tell them to hit Control Z and just keep undoing until it reappears. Control P is your printing, it will automatically take you into your printing options so you can print quickly and easily, Control P. Now copy, cut and paste are the other popular keyboard shortcuts. I can highlight something, I can do a Control C, click somewhere do a Control V and paste it. Or I can highlight an area, I can do a Control X cut it out and put it someplace totally different. So Control C copies, Control X cuts it out, removes it and puts it somewhere else. I'll hit my Control Z and undo those things. I'll keep hitting it here until we're back to where we were. The next shortcut keys that I use quite a bit are the bold, italic and underline. I can highlight something and I can just do a Control B to bold it, Control I is italic and Control U is the underline. If I don't want one of those I can just do a Control B again and that will turn off the bold. One of my favorites is the Control F for Find. I've typed in the word paragraph there and I wanted it to find that in my document. It shows me right here the area and it highlights it over here in yellow for me. I can click on this next area, jumps me there and shows me again where that word is. Control F will save you so much time if you just need to find a specific element in your document, rather than reading the whole thing use the Find Option. I'm going to close out of that. Another thing that I always tell people about is the Escape key. If you're working in Microsoft Word and it seems like the Format Painter won't turn off and leave you alone there's just a command that keeps running and running and won't stop. Hit the Escape key on your keyboard. That works in any computer program. Hit that to cancel and action. F4 is a Repeater. I can go down here, I will type 1, 2, 3 hit my Enter key. Now I'm going to hit F4, that repeats my last actions. It types my numbers and also puts in my Enter. So F4 repeats. Alt F4 will close Microsoft Word. So F4 repeats, Alt F4 closes Word. I can also do an Alt F, that brings up my backstage. Notice there i can use E then and go to Export. I can use C and close my document. If you hit Alt you'll notice all these things pop up. That shows you what letter you hit to get into that area. So if I do an S that takes me into References and all those different elements in there again have the letter that I need to hit to activate those. I'll hit Alt again and that turns it off. And last but not least I want to show you how to select things in Microsoft Word. You may want to move entire areas or reformat entire areas. Control A highlights all of your document. So Control A is all. I can double-click on a word and that highlights a word. If I triple-click notice that gets me more, I get a whole paragraph. I can also go out here to the edge see when I get that arrow pointing back, I can click and highlight an entire line. I can also click and drag and highlight that way. Another little trick I have is you click somewhere, you hold down your Shift key and you click somewhere else and it highlights everything in between. I call that the click the shift, the click. I use that a lot with people who have problems with dragging the mouse and making it stop where they want to. You just click somewhere, hold down your Shift key and click at the end. And another little trick for highlighting is the F8 key. So if I hit F8 that initiates a Selection Mode. If I hit it again I get a word and if I just keep hitting it you'll notice how it continues to highlight more and more, eventually my whole document. I can do Shift F8 and that starts to reverse my highlights. Then when I'm done I just hit Escape to make sure that I edit out of Selection Mode. So think about which of those keyboard shortcuts you'd like to start to get into the habit of using. It will save you a lot of time. Think about it, write them down, put them on a notecard next to our computer so you can start making those shortcuts a habit.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Word 2013 |
| Author: | Melanie Hedgespeth |
| SKU: | 34401 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-087-9 |
| Release Date: | 2013-01-18 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 147 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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