Word Processing: 10 Cool Keyboard Tricks

While editing a manuscript, I found a need to make the process faster with the use of hotkey (keyboard shortcuts), wildcards, and some keyboard tricks to get things done.

These work only in MS Word.

Doing this	Does this
—	Pressing the dash key 3x will create a horizontal line in your document
== =	Pressing the equal key 3x creates a double line in your document
Ctrl   H	Opens the Find/Replace feature.
Ctrl  E	Aligns text and graphics to center
=rand(08,10)	Type this in your document creates random text if you ever need to add random text.
^p^p ^p	Using Find/Replace, put ^p^p in Find and ^p and this removes manual spaces between paragraphs
Ctrl  SHIFT  m	Inserts a comment where you put your cursor in the document.
SHIFT  F7	Pressing these two keys open the built in Thesaurus. You can often find synonyms by RIGHT-CLICKING over a word. You will choices of words to use.
LEFT CLICK The mouse	Clicking a word twice will highlight the word. Click three times, and you select the entire paragraph.

 

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