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Five Keyboard Shortcuts for Moving Around a Document in Word 2007

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Moving the cursor through the entire document: Down or up one paragraph: Ctrl + up arrow or Ctrl + down arrow Move to the beginning or end of a document: Ctrl +Home or Ctrl + End Cycle through last four editing positions in document: Ctrl + Alt + Z Moving the cursor within the ...

How to Create a Keyboard Shortcut to Insert a Section Break in Word 2007

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

There is no pre-assigned shortcut key that will insert a section break into a Word document. These directions will show you how to define your own keyboard shortcut for it. Click the Office button, then Word Options. In the left-hand pane, click Customize. At the bottom left of the Customize window, look for ...

Five Keyboard Shortcuts for Greater Text Control in Word 2007

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Non-breaking space — Ctrl + Shift + Space Non-breaking hyphen — Ctrl + Shift + Hyphen (dash) Line break — Shift + Enter Column break — Ctrl + Shift + Enter Page break — Ctrl + Enter This is what they look like with Show/Hide ¶ marks turned on: Note: The double-line to the right of ...

Word 2007 Q&A: Check Boxes, Hard Spaces, Find & Replace

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Where do I find the check box for forms in Word 2007? Go to the Developer tab, Controls group, Legacy tools, it’s under the Legacy Forms. What is the keyboard shortcut to go to the next paragraph? Ctrl + up or down arrow. Why use a hard (or nonbreaking) space (Ctrl + Shift + ...

Five Shortcut Keys for Fonts in Word 2007

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Remember that you would need to select the text you want to change before you try these. Grow font size 1 point: Ctrl + ] Shrink font size 1 point: Ctrl + [ Change case: Shift + F3 Small caps: Ctrl + Shift + K Remove formatting: Ctrl + Space Change case changes TEXT FROM UPPERCASE ...

Keyboard Shortcuts for Aligning Text in Word 2007

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Aligning Text Left align - Ctrl + L Right align - Ctrl + R Center align - Ctrl + E Full justify - Ctrl + J Indenting Text Indent - Ctrl + M Remove indent - Ctrl + Shift + M Hanging indent - Ctrl + T Remove hanging indent - Ctrl + Shift + T Line and Paragraph Spacing Single-space ...

Key-Start Bullets in Word

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Besides using the Bullets and Numbering buttons, a list can be started based on typed characters. To key-start basic bullets or numbering, start the list with one of the following: *. will change to •. 1. will start a numbered list. A. will start a lettered list. All bullet or numbered lists can ...

Using Line Breaks in Word

Friday, February 15th, 2008

When typing up a bulleted or numbered list, sometimes there will be a line where you don't want a bullet or number. One way to do this is to insert a line break; Shift + Enter. A line break allows you to break the continuity of a list, and when ...

Adding Words with Special Characters to AutoCorrect in Word

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

To add a word with Spanish characters to AutoCorrect: Type the word or name in a Word document with the correct characters, such as niña. Select the word (do not select the paragraph mark). Copy the word with Ctrl+C (or right-click and Copy). Open AutoCorrect (if you have not added it to your ...