Microsoft Word is one of the most popularly used feature of the Microsoft Office suite. It will amaze you the number off shortcut keys that are available to help you work your way out in Microsoft office with ease.

Here are some of the Microsoft Word shortcut Keys that you should know to help you work with ease.

55 Microsoft Word Shortcuts

1. Ctrl+O:  Open a document
2. Ctrl+W:  Close a document
3. Ctrl+N:  Create a new document
4. Ctrl+S:  Save a document
5. F12:  Open the Save As dialog box
6. Ctrl+X: Cut the selected content to the Clipboard
7. Ctrl+C: Copy the selected content to the Clipboard
8. Ctrl+V: Paste the contents of the Clipboard
9. Ctrl+A: Select all document
10. Ctrl+B: Apply Bold formatting to a text
11. Ctrl+I: Apply Italic formatting to a text
12. Ctrl+U: Underline a text
13. Ctrl+[: Decrease the font size by 1 point
14. Ctrl+]: Increase the font size by 1 point
15. Ctrl+E: Center the text
16. Ctrl+Alt+O:  Outline View
17. Ctrl+Z:  Undo an action
18. Ctrl+L: Align the text to the left
19. Ctrl+R: Align the text to the right
20. Esc: Cancel a command
21. Ctrl+Y:  Redo an action
22. Alt+Ctrl+S: Split a window or remove the split view
23. Ctrl+Alt+V: Print Layout View
24. Ctrl+Alt+N: Draft View
25. Ctrl+F2:  Print Preview View
26. F1:  Open the Help pane
27. F9:  Refresh the field codes in the current selection
28. Ctrl+F: Search a document
29. F7: Run spelling and grammar check
30. Alt+Shift+C or Ctrl+Alt+S: Remove the document window split
31. Alt+W, Q, then tab in Zoom dialog box to the value you want: Adjust the zoom magnification
32. Ctrl+Left or Right arrow key: Move between command groupings on the ribbon
33. Alt+Down arrow key: Open the menu for the selected button
34. Ctrl+F1: Expand or collapse the ribbon
35. Ctrl+Left arrow key: Move the cursor one word to the left in a document
36. Ctrl+Right arrow key: Move the cursor one word to the right in a document
37. Ctrl+Up arrow key: Move the cursor up by one paragraph
38. Ctrl+Down arrow key: Move the cursor down by one paragraph
39. Home: Move the cursor to the beginning the current line
40. End: Move the cursor to the end of the current line
41. Ctrl+Alt+Page up: Move the cursor to the top of the screen
42. Ctrl+Alt+Page down: Move the cursor to the bottom of the screen
43. Ctrl+Page down: Move the cursor to the top of the next page
44. Ctrl+Page up: Move the cursor to the top of the previous page
45. Ctrl+P: Print the document
46. Ctrl+Alt+I: Switch to print preview
47. Shift+Arrow keys: Select text
48. Ctrl+Shift+Left arrow key: Select the word to the left
49. Ctrl+Shift+Right arrow key: Select the word to the right
50. Ctrl+Shift+Home: Select from the current position to the beginning of the document
51. Ctrl+Shift+End: Select from the current position to the end of the document
52. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Page down: Select from the current position to the bottom of the window
53. Ctrl+Backspace: Delete one word to the left
54. Ctrl+Delete: Delete one word to the right
55. Ctrl+0 (zero): Add or remove space before the paragraph

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