Bold

CTRL + B

Makes the text bold

Italic

CTRL + I

Italicizes the text

Underline

CTRL + U

Underlines the text

Increases the font size by one factor. Same as pressing the

Increase Font Size

button.

CTRL + SHIFT + > After 12pt, font size increases by two points with each press.
Decreases the font size one facto. Same as pressing the

button.

Decrease Font Size

CTRL + SHIFT + < After 12pt, font size decreases by two points with each press.

Left Align

CTRL + L

Aligns the selected text to the left

Center Align

CTRL + E

Aligns the text to the center

Right Align

CTRL + R

Aligns the text to the right

Justify

CTRL + J

Justifies the selected paragraph

Opens the font format window where you can select the font size,

Font Format

CTRL + D

family, color, etc.

Indent Paragraph

CTRL + M

Indents the selected paragraph. Equivalent to pressing TAB once.

Show/Hide

CTRL + * (i.e. CTRL Shows all the formatting symbols on page. Same as pressing the

Formatting Symbols

+ SHIFT + 8)

button.
Opens the font format window with the font highlighted. A faster way

Change Font

CTRL + SHIFT + F to change font than pressing CTRL + D

Increase Font Size by

One Pt.

CTRL + ]

Increases font size by only one point, regardless of current size.

One Pt.

CTRL + [

Decreases font size by only one point, regardless of current size.

Redo

CTRL + Y

Repeats the last action

Undo

CTRL + Z

Undo the last action

Find

CTRL + F

Find specific text/characters in the document

Replace

CTRL + H

Replace specific text/characters in the document

Decrease Font Size by

Select All

CTRL + A

Selects all text on the page. Useful for copy-pasting entire documents
Standard keyboard shortcut for copying anything. Applicable across

Copy

CTRL + C

Windows
Instead of making a copy, removes the text from the current location
and copies it to the clipboard, from where it can be pasted into another

Cut

CTRL + X

location

Paste

CTRL + V

Pastes anything from the clipboard into your current location

Save

CTRL + S

Saves the current document in your specified location

Open

CTRL + O

Opens an existing document

New

CTRL + N

Creates a new document

CTRL +

Moves the cursor one word to the left

CTRL +

Moves the cursor one word to the right

Start

CTRL + Up-arrow

Moves cursor to the beginning of the current paragraph

Move Cursor to Line

CTRL + Down-

End

arrow

Move Cursor One

Word to the Left
Move Cursor One
Word to the Right
Move Cursor to Line

Moves cursor to the end of current paragraph

Delete Word to the

Left

CTRL + Backspace Deletes any element to the left of the current cursor position

Delete Word to the

Right

CTRL + Delete

Deletes any element to the right of the current cursor position

CTRL + End

Moves cursor to the end of the document

Start

CTRL + Home

Moves cursor to the beginning of the document

Single Line Spacing

CTRL + 1

Changes line-spacing to single space

Move to Document
End
Move to Document

Double Line Spacing

CTRL + 2

Changes to double line spacing

Save As

F12

Opens the Save As dialog box

Print

CTRL + P

Opens the Print dialog box

Find/Replace

F5

Opens the find/replace/go-to dialog box

Spell Check

F7

Opens the spell check

Insert Link

CTRL + K

Inserts a link at the current location