​Surely you've often found yourself in the situation of being pressed by a "petty" deadline, looking for a secret weapon to make your work more efficient and fit in the time you have left, without sacrificing your family or personal life. If your work involves working mainly in text editing programs, you need to know a lot of Word shortcuts that will help you move much faster and impress your colleagues and bosses by handing in documents in advance. 

Many underestimate the importance of keyboard "tricks", but they prove their usefulness in a second, literally and figuratively, allowing you to concentrate on the substance, i.e. the content, not the form.

That's why, in the following, we present our list of essential Word shortcuts, including the key combinations you will use most often and that help you save the most time (we skip the classics Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, but we remind you to press Ctrl+S as often as you can, to prevent the very unpleasant situation where you can lose absolutely everything you've been working on, either by a little carelessness, or by an accident, for example a power failure).

Word shortcuts - Brightway®️ suggestions

- F12 - Save the document under another name;
- Ctrl+F6 - Toggle between multiple open documents;
- F6 - Toggle between main menu pages;
- Ctrl+G or Ctrl+F5 - Move the cursor to a bookmark, footnote, table, comment or image page;
- Alt+Ctrl+Z - Moves the cursor to the last place in the document where a change was made (works for the last 4 changes);
- Shift+F5 - Displays the last change/revision made to a document;
- Ctrl+Shift+F5 - Defines or edits bookmarks and positions the cursor next to them;
- Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V - Copy the formatting style of a text or apply it to another text;
- Ctrl+F3 and Ctrl+Shift+F3 - Copy a text to Spike memory (an additional clipboard) and paste it at the cursor position;
- Alt+n+u - Opens the menu for inserting symbols (special characters);
- Ctrl+Enter - Defines a new page break;
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter - Inserts a break between columns or "breaks" a table (Break Table);
- Alt+Ctrl+F - Inserts a footnote;
- Alt+Ctrl+D - Insert an explanatory note;
- Ctrl+K - Inserts a hyperlink;
- Alt+Shift+I - Marks a citation;
- Alt+Shift+X - Inserts an index note;
- Ctrl+Shift+< and Ctrl+Shift+> - Shrinks or increases the font size (by one step);
- Ctrl+Shift+A - Transforms all letters to uppercase;
- Ctrl+Shift+K - Converts all letters to lower case;
- Shift+F1 - Displays all formatting rules applied to a text;
- Ctrl+2 - Double the space between lines;
- Ctrl+5 - Sets line spacing to 1.5.

The rest of Word's "secrets" in a complete course

In addition to shortcuts, Word hides numerous functions that allow you to perform a variety of operations and make your work easier. In the dedicated training, organized by our company, you can learn everything about one of the most used programs of all time, which will open up a new horizon for you and your company. Stop thinking, press Ctrl+N and... create a new opportunity in your professional and personal life!