Comments on: Quick Ways to Be More Efficient in MS Word

By: Duane

Duane — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:37:40 +0000

Blatant plug – a few more Word lifesavers: http://dnutley.wordpress.com/word/

By: Pietr

Pietr — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:23:57 +0000

Well, you could also have a look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938/en-us to see them all ;-)

By: StacyF

StacyF — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:21:54 +0000

@MikeR: I completely agree with you. If someone takes a few minutes to get used to using styles then they will find that they are a time-saving tool that will save you a ton of time and headaches when formatting.

By: MikeR

MikeR — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:32:47 +0000

One of the greatest time-savers in Word is the use of Styles. It simplifies formatting (making most formatting decision-free), ensures consistency, reduces the possibility of corruption, etc. Some people seem to resist using styles like it’s a foreign language, but it’s truly the most powerful tool Word offers and the one that can save the most time!

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:54:45 +0000

I work in a lega setting and used Word Perfect for many years. It was designed for legal applications – MSWord is not. Where I am now, there is only MS Word and after 5 years, I’m still stumbling around. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks for the great tips!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:27:14 +0000

Rather than holding the right or left arrow to move along a line letter by letter, hold Ctrl and press the arrow to jump word by word. Much quicker! (Hold shift too and the text will be selected.

Also, select some text and Ctrl – [ or ] to change the size of the text quickly.

Jon

By: q

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:33:30 +0000

Thanks, I learned a few new shortcuts from your post. These are the most helpful for me: Ctrl + shift + 8 will toggle the field codes and markups. Ctrl + alt + I will mark citations, very helpful if you are creating multiple concordances or TOC's. Shift + F7, when the cursor is on a word, will highlight that word and automatically look it up in the thesaurus. Ctrl + shift + S will save as, very helpful if you want to save a version of your current document or want to save it to say your flash drive.