The 40 Essential Shortcuts For Microsoft Word

Thanks to the keyboard shortcuts, we will avoid having to lift both hands on the keyboard to activate common functions in Microsoft Word, which will make us faster and more efficient when writing or formatting our texts.

Microsoft Word has become an indispensable tool in the life of practically any worker. Everyone, sooner or later, daily or in a timely manner, we have to write documents in this program, texts that once sent without excuse to the inefficient typewriters.

But Word is not, in itself, an environment that allows us to fully exploit our productivity. Some of their most common options are hidden in menus that we must navigate whenever we want to do something. Or, if you prefer, we have to configure the toolbars in advance to make sure we have all our usual buttons on hand.

The alternative to all this lies in the keyboard shortcuts. They are combinations of keys that, automatically, execute some command without needing that we go to said option in the menu or look for the button anywhere. Some of them are common to other programs (such as typical copy-cut-paste), but others are unique to the Microsoft Word environment.

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Thanks to these shortcuts, we will avoid having to lift both hands on the keyboard and we will be faster and more efficient when writing our texts. Here is a selection of 40 most useful keyboard shortcuts for any user …