Do you know that time spent on a particular program which we use in everyday work as Microsoft Word, and using only your mouse for commands, can be significantly decreased if you use Word with keyword shortcuts? Statistically, we can say that regular worker in period of one year spend 30% of his working time using MS Word for his/her tasks.  But, with using keyboard shortcuts that percentage could be decreased 3% for a period of one year.  So, if we make some rough calculation only with regular working time of 8 hours in day, means that we could spend over 57.6 hours by year. Truly amazing… So, in this article we will try to cover few of the most usable Microsoft Word and OpenOffice shortcuts:

Select text
Shift + Right Arrow, Left Arrow, Up Arrow, or Down Arrow to highlight text

Copy selected text
Ctrl + C

Cut selected text
Ctrl + X

Paste selected text
Ctrl + V

Undo your last action
Ctrl + Z

Select all the text within your document
Ctrl + A

Bold text
Ctrl + B

Italicize text
Ctrl + I

Underline
Ctrl + U

Decrease font size
Ctrl + Shift + <

Increase font size
Ctrl + Shift + >

Change font
Ctrl + Shift + F, then use the arrow keys to reach the new font

Change font size
Ctrl + Shift + P, then use the arrow keys to reach the new font size

Create page break
Ctrl + Enter

Create new document
Ctrl + N

Open My Documents window
Ctrl + O

Close a document
Ctrl + W

Save a document
Ctrl + S

Print a document
Ctrl + P

Preview what you’re about to print
Alt + Ctrl + I

Tags | Howto, Keyboard Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks, Windows