Shortcuts in MS Word
(Oliver Ludwig 24 June 2002
ff)
Subscript toggle Ctrl =
Superscript toggle Ctrl Shift =
Bold Ctrl b
Italic Ctrl i
Underline Ctrl u
Left Justify Ctrl l
Right Justify Ctrl r
Full Justify Ctrl j
Hanging indent Ctrl t
Indent text Ctrl m
Hard space Ctrl Shift Space (non-breaking space)
Hard hyphen Ctrl Shift – (non-breaking hyphen)
Hard page Ctrl Enter
Double space Ctrl 2
Single space Ctrl 1
Ctrl PgDn|PgUp Next|previous page
Ctrl Home|End Top|bottom of
document
Equilibrium arrows in MS Word: type 21C4 and then alt-x to give
⇄
Foreign characters:
Ctrl ‘ then e gives é,
Ctrl ` then e gives è
Ctrl @ then A gives Å
Ctrl / then o gives ø
Ctrl : then a gives ä
Ctrl ~ then n gives ñ
Ctrl , then c gives ç
Ctrl ˆ then o gives ô
Non-built-in: (Must
be set via Assign Shortcut in Symbol menu)
Ctrl then Gives
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d |
delta |
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D |
Delta |
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l |
lambda |
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m |
mu |
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n |
nu |
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s |
sigma |
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S |
Sigma |
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ps |
psi |
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ch |
chi |
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pi |
pi |
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pa |
partial |
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> (lc) |
over arrow |
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< (lc) |
back arrow |
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0 |
° |
How to think twice before using bugaboo
words when using Word
Note: the latest version of MS Word has
information about this. Click on “Help” and in the search box type “exception”
without the quotes. OGL Mar 2008
There's a capability of MSWord which does not seem to be mentioned in the Help section of the package, yet might be very useful to students who occasionally mix up "affect" and "effect", and the like. Here I write for the student – faculty would never need such a facility, of course. ;-)
If you create a plaintext (ASCII) file containing properly-spelled words which you sometimes confuse, MSWord will underline them in red in documents so that you can take a moment to consider whether you want "affect" or "effect" for example. You might include "it's" or "there" and "their" as well. This will be your "Exclude" file.
The easy way to do this is to go to
Word’s Help and enter “preferred spelling” in the search bar. This will bring
up a
affect
effect
it’s
… and so on
Once this file is in place, Word will alert you to each occurrence of every word in this list.
After you reenter MSWord, the words you place in the exception file will be underlined for your consideration. Put a shortcut to the .exc file on your Desktop to be able to add to it easily.
OGL June 2005