Become a word processor power-user in the following, very easy, and simple steps. The following keyboard short-cuts work for the majority of word processors:
- CTRL + O - Open an existing document
- CTRL + N - Start a new document
- CTRL + S - Save current doucment
- CTRL + P - Quick Print current document
- CTRL + X - Cut selected text to the clipboard
- CTRL + C - Copy selected text to the clipboard
- CTRL + V - Paste selected text from clipboard
- CTRL + 1 - Make the linespacing 1
- CTRL + 2 - Make the linespacing 2 or Double Space
- CTRL + 5 - Make the linespacing 1.5 or one and a half times
- CTRL + B - Make text bold in style
- CTRL + I - Make text italic in style
- CTRL + U - Make text underlined in style
- CTRL + A - Select all the text in the current document
- CTRL + SHIFT + A - Sets the current text selection to "ALL CAPS"
- CTRL + SHIFT + L - Step through the bullet style you want by toggling the L
- CTRL + F - Find selected word in a document
- F3 - Find next word that was selected
- CTRL + R - Find and Replace selected word in a document
- Home - Go to the start of a line where the cursor is currenly located
- End - Go to the end of a line where the cursor is currently located
- Page Up - Move the visible page one screen-view up
- Page Down - Move the visible page one screen-view down
- Insert - Overwrite the current text without moving the characters forward
- Delete - Delete all forward characters from the current cursor position
Some more unknown and under-used keyboard / mouse short-cuts:
- CTRL + Home - Move the cursor to the start of a document, character 1 - line 1
- CTRL + End - Move the cursor the the end of a document, last character, last line
- Double-mouse-click on a single word to select it
- Triple-mouse-click to select the whole paragraph
- Hold down the left mouse-button, and scroll up or down to custom zoom your document text to your liking
- Move the current text selection with your mouse, by holding down the left-mouse button and drag and drop it
SSuite Word Processors Only -- CTRL + H - Open document history