Keys for editing and moving text and graphics

 Here are tables full of Office 97 shortcuts. Office 97 being a suite, these shortcuts work (where appropriate) in all of the programs in Office 97. Learn them once, learn them forever. I have chosen to use different table styles for different grouping of shortcuts. This way you can check out the different styles for yourself. This document was written in Word 97 and saved as an HTML document. Normally, Word 97 is very good at producing HTML files from Word documents. There is a little tweaking that has to be done here and there but not that much.

Delete text and graphics

To

Delete one character to the left

Delete one word to the left

Delete one character to the right

Delete one word to the right

Cut selected text to the Clipboard

Undo the last action

Cut to the Spike

Press

BACKSPACE

CTRL+BACKSPACE

DELETE

CTRL+DELETE

CTRL+X

CTRL+Z

CTRL+F3

 

Copy and move text and graphics

To

Copy text or graphics

Move text or graphics

Create AutoText

Paste the Clipboard contents

Paste the Spike contents

Press

CTRL+C

F2 (then move the insertion point and press ENTER)

ALT+F3

CTRL+V

CTRL+SHIFT+F3

 

Insert special characters

To insert

Press

A field

CTRL+F9

An AutoText entry

ENTER (after typing the first few characters of the AutoText entry name and when the ScreenTip appears)

A line break

SHIFT+ENTER

A page break

CTRL+ENTER

A column break

CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

An optional hyphen

CTRL+HYPHEN

A nonbreaking hyphen

CTRL+SHIFT+HYPHEN

A nonbreaking space

CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR

The copyright symbol

ALT+CTRL+C

The registered trademark symbol

ALT+CTRL+R

The trademark symbol

ALT+CTRL+T

An ellipsis

ALT+CTRL+period

 

Select text and graphics

Select text by holding down SHIFT and pressing the key that moves the insertion point.

To extend a selection

Press

One character to the right

SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW

One character to the left

SHIFT+LEFT ARROW

To the end of a word

CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW

To the beginning of a word

CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW

To the end of a line

SHIFT+END

To the beginning of a line

SHIFT+HOME

One line down

SHIFT+DOWN ARROW

One line up

SHIFT+UP ARROW

To the end of a paragraph

CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW

To the beginning of a paragraph

CTRL+SHIFT+UP ARROW

One screen down

SHIFT+PAGE DOWN

One screen up

SHIFT+PAGE UP

To the end of a window

ALT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN

To the beginning of a document

CTRL+SHIFT+HOME

To include the entire document

CTRL+A

To a vertical block of text

CTRL+SHIFT+F8, and then use the arrow keys; press ESC to cancel selection mode

To a specific location in a document

F8+arrow keys; press ESC to cancel selection mode Tip If you know the key combination to move the insertion point, you can select the text by using the same key combination while holding down SHIFT. For example, CTRL+RIGHT ARROW moves the insertion point to the next word, and CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW selects the text from the insertion point to the beginning of the next word.

 

Select text and graphics in a table

To

Press

Select the next cell's contents

TAB

Select the preceding cell's contents

SHIFT+TAB

Extend a selection to adjacent cells

Hold down SHIFT and press an arrow key repeatedly

Select a column

Click in the column's top or bottom cell. Hold down SHIFT and press the UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW key repeatedly

Extend a selection (or block)

CTRL+SHIFT+F8, and then use the arrow keys; press ESC to cancel selection mode Reduce the selection size SHIFT+F8

Select an entire table

ALT+5 on the numeric keypad (with NUM LOCK off)

 

Extend a selection

To

Press

Turn extend mode on

F8

Select the nearest character

F8, and then press LEFT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW

Increase the size of a selection

F8 (press once to select a word, twice to select a sentence, and so forth)

Reduce the size of a selection

SHIFT+F8

Turn extend mode off

ESC

 

Move the insertion point

To move

Press

One character to the left

LEFT ARROW

One character to the right

RIGHT ARROW

One word to the left

CTRL+LEFT ARROW

One word to the right

CTRL+RIGHT ARROW

One paragraph up

CTRL+UP ARROW

One paragraph down

CTRL+DOWN ARROW

One cell to the left (in a table)

SHIFT+TAB

One cell to the right (in a table)

TAB

Up one line

UP ARROW

Down one line

DOWN ARROW

To the end of a line

END

To the beginning of a line

HOME

To the top of the window

ALT+CTRL+PAGE UP

To the end of the window

ALT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN

Up one screen (scrolling)

PAGE UP

Down one screen (scrolling)

PAGE DOWN

To the top of the next page

CTRL+PAGE DOWN

To the top of the previous page

CTRL+PAGE UP

To the end of a document

CTRL+END

To the beginning of a document

CTRL+HOME

To a previous revision

SHIFT+F5

To the location of the insertion point when the document was last closed

SHIFT+F5

 

Move around in a table

In a table, to move to the

Press

Next cell in a row

TAB

Previous cell in a row

SHIFT+TAB

First cell in a row

ALT+HOME

Last cell in a row

ALT+END

First cell in a column

ALT+PAGE UP

Last cell in a column

ALT+PAGE DOWN

Previous row

UP ARROW

Next row

DOWN ARROW

 

Insert paragraphs and tab characters in a table

To insert

Press

New paragraphs in a cell

ENTER

Tab characters in a cell

CTRL+TAB

 

Miscellaneous Commands

To Access This

Press

New File

Ctrl + N

Open a File

Ctrl + O

Save a File

Ctrl + S

Print a File

Ctrl + P

Hyperlink

Ctrl + K

Check Spelling and Grammar

F7

Help

F1

Thesaurus

Shift + F7

Macros

Alt + F8

Visual Basic Editor

Alt + F11

Paste Selected Text

Ctrl + V

Cut Selected Text

Ctrl + X

Copy Selected Text

Ctrl + C

Select All

Ctrl + A

Find

Ctrl + F

Replace

Ctrl + H

Go To...

Ctrl + G