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In every class I’ve taught for the past ten years, someone ALWAYS asks me for a list of keyboard shortcuts. You would have thought I would have taken the hint long ago, but I’ve finally found the time to create a full list of keyboard shortcuts for each of the main Office programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. What’s more, these shortcuts are not version specific, meaning they’ll work in 2003 and 2007.

On each of the keyboard shortcut sheets that I’ve created, there is one section called, “That Office Girl’s Favorites…” The shortcut keys listed under this section are the ones I use nearly daily and those are the shortcuts I’m posting here for Microsoft Word.

Repeat F4
Save CTRL+S
Page Break CTRL+ENTER
Center Align CTRL+E
Double Space CTRL+2
Go To F5
Font Dialog Box CTRL+D
Undo CTRL+Z
Select a Column ALT+DRAG
Thesaurus SHIFT+F7
Tab in a Table CTRL+TAB
Previous Location SHIFT+F5

Just be sure to spend all of the time you’ll be saving after implementing these shortcuts wisely!

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