What Are the Most Commonly Used MS Word Hotkeys for Typists?

Text Navigation and Editing:

• CTRL + Left Arrow - Move one word to the left
• CTRL + Right Arrow - Move one word to the right
• CTRL + Up Arrow - Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph
• CTRL + Down Arrow - Move to the end of the paragraph
• CTRL + END - Go to the end of the document
• CTRL + SHIFT + Down Arrow - Select text
• CTRL + SHIFT + Up Arrow - Deselect text
• CTRL + DEL - Delete word to the right of cursor
• CTRL + Backspace - Delete word to the left of cursor

Formatting Text:

• SHIFT + F3 - Toggle between all caps, capitalize first letter, or all lowercase
• CTRL + SHIFT + < - Decrease selected font size
• CTRL + SHIFT + > - Increase selected font size
• CTRL + B - Bold
• CTRL + I - Italicize
• CTRL + U - Underline
• CTRL + SHIFT + L - Insert bullet point
• CTRL + Apostrophe + E - Add accented 'e'

Searching and Replacing Text:

• CTRL + F - Find
• CTRL + H - Find + Replace, or jump to page number

Miscellaneous:

• F12 - Save
• CTRL + ALT + H - Highlight selected text
• CTRL + A - Select all text
• CTRL + Z - Undo
• CTRL + Y - Redo
• CTRL + W - Close currently open document window
• Left-click three times - Highlight an entire paragraph