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Posted in Office, Microsoft on February 28, 2007 at 6:36 pm

For those of you who have attended one of my Office training courses you will know that I prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse. If you’ve attended recently you’ll also know I have been saying I’ll get an office keyboard shortcuts post on here for a while, well here it is…

(By the way, sorry it took a while)

Generic
Command	Shortcut	Alternative Shortcut
Copy	Ctrl + C	Ctrl + Insert
Paste	Ctrl + V	Shift + Insert
Cut	Ctrl + X
Save	Ctrl + S
Print preview	Ctrl +F2
Print	Ctrl + P
Open	Ctrl + O	Ctrl + F12
New document	Ctrl + N
Close document	Ctrl + F4	Ctrl + W
Undo	Ctrl + Z
Redo	Ctrl + Y
Bold	Ctrl + B
Underline	Ctrl + U
Italics	Ctrl + I
Add Hyperlink	Ctrl + K
Subscript	Ctrl + =
Select All	Ctrl + A
Task pane	Ctrl + F1
Help	F1
Menu bar	Alt	F10
Spell check	F7

Word
Command	Shortcut	Alternative Shortcut
Increase font size by 1	Ctrl + ]
Increase font size by 2	Ctrl + Shift + >
Decrease font size by 1	Ctrl + [
Decrease font size by 2	Ctrl + Shift + <
Left align text	Ctrl + L
Centre align text	Ctrl + E
Right align text	Ctrl + R
Format Font	Ctrl + D

Excel
Command	Shortcut	Alternative Shortcut
Format Cell	Ctrl + 1
Insert current date	Ctrl + ;
Insert current time	Ctrl + :
Format cell as currency	Ctrl + Shift + 4
Format cell as number	Ctrl + Shift + 1
Format cell as percentage	Ctrl + Shift + 5
Format cell as scientific	Ctrl + Shift + 6
Add border	Ctrl + Shift + 7