Basic Shortcut Keys in MS Word

In MS Word document, before using any short keys in MS Word (in order to edit anything) make sure to (almost always) select the text you want to make the changes in the MS word.

For Windows Users

Ctrl+N : Open New Word document

Ctrl+O : Open an existing Word document

Ctrl+C : Copy

Ctrl+X: Cut

Ctrl+V: Paste copied items

Ctrl+Alt+V: Paste special 

                    In Ms Word, if you copied some text from other documents and paste in a different document                     then it will paste the text formatting of the source documents. So if you want to paste the text                     in your document applying your formating then you should use this [ctrl+alt+v] command                         and then select the Unformatted Text in the pop-up window.

Ctrl+P: Print the oped document 

            (if you want to print only some portion of the same document or word file, then select the portion                 of the word document and use the same command, then you have to select the Selected in the                     pop-up window. You can also choose the page numbers from and to for printing some pages.

Ctrl+F: Find

Ctrl+G: Go to 

Ctrl+H: Replace

Ctrl+B: Bold

Ctrl+I: Italic 

Ctrl+U: Underline

Ctrl+W: Close the document

Ctrl+A: Select all

Ctrl+J: Justified the text

Ctrl+E: Centered the text

Ctrl+L: Left alignment of the text

Ctrl+R: Right alignment of the text

Ctrl+Z: Undo

Ctrl+Y: Redo

Ctrl+Shift+<: Increase the text size

Ctrl+Shift+>: Decrease the text size

Ctrl+S: Save

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