Word Keyboard Formatting

A prior post explained how to select text within a Microsoft Word document using the keyboard rather than the mouse. Once you have selected text, what do you do with it? The odds are that you either copy it and paste it somewhere else, delete it, or format it. If you routinely perform the same formatting option(s) on text, you can improve your efficiency with Word by learning the keyboard short-cut(s) for those options.

The following table lists the methods that can be used to format a document with the keyboard when using Microsoft Word. These keyboard shortcuts should work in Word 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013. NOTE: The ‘+’ between the key names indicates that you have to press the keys at the same time.

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