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Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys: The Complete CheatSheet

Take a printout of these shortcuts to keep them handy

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Published onAugust 6, 2024

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Mastering shortcuts on any productivity tool, like Microsoft Word, can streamline your workflow and boost your productivity. In this guide, we will mention the comprehensive cheat sheet to help you use Word with speed and efficiency.

What are the commonly used keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word?

1. Frequently used shortcuts

2. Ribbon keyboard shortcuts

3. Navigate through, preview and print a document

4. Selection

5. Align and format

6. Work with web content

7. Work with tables

8. Review a document

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10. Work with mail merge and fields

11. Work with text in other languages

12. Work with document views

13. Use function key shortcuts

This is the complete cheat sheet, which contains frequently used and advanced shortcuts to help you navigate, format, print, review, and edit your documents faster than ever.

Remembering them all is not an easy task, so you can take a print of all the shortcuts or save this guide as a bookmark to keep them handy.

If you want to learn aboutWindows 11 keyboard shortcuts, we have a separate guide for it; click on the link to check it out.

In case you have issues likeWinword.exe application erroror if yourMicrosoft Word has stopped working on your PC, we have detailed guides.

Which are your favorite shortcut keys for Microsoft Word? Share them with our readers in the comments section below.

Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys: The Complete CheatSheet#

What are the commonly used keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word?#

1. Frequently used shortcuts#

2. Ribbon keyboard shortcuts#

3. Navigate through, preview and print a document#

4. Selection#

5. Align and format#

6. Work with web content#

7. Work with tables#

8. Review a document#

9. Shortcuts related to references, citations, and indexing#

10. Work with mail merge and fields#

11. Work with text in other languages#

12. Work with document views#

13. Use function key shortcuts#