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4/2006 - Microsoft Word
Press CTRL +
ALT + Z or
Command Option + Z on the
Apple to automatically go back to where your
cursor has been previously.
This is great for those times you move to the another page or
paragraph in a document and need to go back where you came from.
Delete one full word
back by pressing and holding down the CTRL key and pressing the
backspace key or if you're on a Apple press and hold the Command
key and the backspace key.
2/2006 - Microsoft Word
Type "=rand(8,10)" (without the quotes) and press enter in
Microsoft word to have Microsoft Word automatically generate a
bunch of text that can be used to test page formatting, fonts, etc.
10/2005 - Microsoft Word
Easily copy how text is formatted to other text by using the
Microsoft Format Painter option. For example, if you have a heading
in Microsoft Word that has font, size, or other format you like
highlight that text, click the paintbrush icon in the formatting
toolbar and then highlight the text you wish to have the same type
of format.
3/2005 - Microsoft Word
Quickly zoom in and out of a Microsoft Word
document by holding down the CTRL button and scrolling the wheel on
your mouse.
3/2004 - Microsoft Word
Quickly move the cursor to the
location it was at when the document was last saved by
pressing SHIFT + F5.
11/2003 - Microsoft Word / Excel / Front
Page
Quickly create hyper links in
your Microsoft Word, Excel, or Front Page document by
highlighting text and pressing "CTRL + K".
8/2003 - Microsoft
Word / Excel
Close all open
Microsoft
Word and/or
Excel
files by holding down the shift key and clicking
"File" and then "Close All".
6/2003 - Quickly
open the recent files by first pressing "ALT +
F" to open the file Menu and press 1, 2, 3, or 4
Quickly open the recent
files by first pressing "ALT + F" to open the
file Menu and press 1, 2, 3, or 4.
3/2003 - Microsoft Office applications
This tip works with the majority of
Microsoft
Office applications. Easily create an underlined space
by pressing CTRL + U to start the underline, then press
SHIFT + Space for each underlined space you wish to
create. An example of how this could be used is for
printable forms, for example: Name:
.
11/2002 - Microsoft
Word and above
Quickly insert bullets
into Microsoft Word by typing an asterisk, a space, and
then your sentence. When enter is pressed Microsoft Word
will automatically change your asterisks to a bullet and
text proceeding that text. Below is an example of what
this may look like:
* this will bullet.
This can also be done with
dashes ( - ), and numbers (1. or 1) ).
8/2002 - Most Microsoft
Windows programs / Printers
Save on your printer ink by selectively printing in
Windows programs such as Microsoft Word, Internet
Explorer, WordPad, Outlook, etc. To do this
highlight
portions of text you wish to print and click print. In the
printer dialog window under Page Range choose the option
Selection. It is important to realize that not all
programs or printer drivers support this feature.
7/2002 - Microsoft Office - Repeat Action
Using the F4 key in Microsoft Office 2000 and above allows
the user to repeat the last used action. For example, if you
have changed the font of a selected text and wish to change
another portion of text to the same font, pressing F4 will do
this for you automatically.
4/2002 - Microsoft Word, other word processors and text
programs
Quickly enlarge text in Microsoft Word and most
other PC text programs by first highlighting the text and
pressing CTRL + Shift + > or press and hold CTRL + Shift +
< to decrease the size of text. Additional shortcuts can be found on our
shortcut
page.
9/2001 - PC Windows Shortcut key
Quickly undo mistakes in the
majority of most PC Windows program by pressing CTRL + Z. Additional shortcuts can be found on our
shortcut
page.
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