Word keyboard shortcuts close tab. Selecting text fragments
Word is the most common text editor for personal computers. It is used by both beginners and professionals. For comfortable and fast work Word provides a keyboard shortcut for saving a document, also called “hot keys,” which allows you to perform certain actions at once, without looking up from the keyboard. This article explains how to save a document in Word using a keyboard shortcut.
Normal save (quick)
You can save a document in Word of any version using the combination Ctrl+S. This " shortcut key" executes the "Save" command. However, there are software packages on the Internet in which this combination does not work. In this case, you need to configure it yourself.
Keyboard shortcut Shift + F12 also saves the document in Word. This combination is guaranteed to work in all software packages and versions of all years of manufacture. Also this method may be more convenient for left-handers.
Saving by selecting a file path (“save as”)
"Hot key" F12 is responsible for performing the “save as” action in Word. Unlike Shift + F12, this command opens a window asking for the save location, document name, and preferred format. This button is needed if you need to create separate copy text, change the format, or save the file somewhere else.
In addition to the specified combinations, you can set new ones, customized for yourself. In Settings, select a keyboard shortcut setting. In the “Keyboard Settings” window that pops up, in the category settings, select “File Tab”, and in it – “FileSave” and “FileSaveAs” for “save” and “save as”, respectively. Now dial the desired button or combination.
I hope that this article was useful and helped you cope with your problem or simply improve your Word skills.
Computers have become an integral part of our lives. And the ability to use a computer, as well as the ability to read and write, is required almost everywhere. One of the main "measurements" computer knowledge is the ability to work with the Microsoft office software package. Microsoft Office included in your package word processor Word. Microsoft Word is a program used by doctors, teachers, military, accountants, lawyers, students, etc. Word is also widely used at home. Therefore, good knowledge and ability to use this program will help almost everyone who uses a computer for work and private purposes.
Of course, the ability to work with Word requires a lot of knowledge; in this article I will talk about the hotkeys used in Word. Hotkeys in Word help significantly increase speed efficient work in a text editor. Many of you will say that it is more convenient to work with a mouse, but experience and practice show something completely different. And as my argument, I will propose an experiment, compete with yourself - send an open Word document two ways. Of course, with the mouse you will do this quickly, but if you learn how to use hot combinations Ctrl keys+P, Ctrl+Shift+l, then you will probably send documents for printing faster. Or try another experiment, save open document. I am sure that the fastest way to do this is using the Ctrl+S key combination. It is the speed factor that is the advantage that you get over your colleagues. This means that your knowledge is more competitive in the fight for well-paid jobs.
I divide keyboard shortcuts in Word into several categories. And I think that this approach is more correct, because it allows you to memorize them according to a certain structure.
It is also useful to know some Alt combinations, for example.
Common Keyboard Shortcuts
This category includes service key combinations that perform some action on the entire document. The combination of saving a document or printing falls into this category. The following combinations are also often used:
These combinations Word keys, related to general combinations, are the most used. Of course, everyone who uses hotkeys will add a couple of combinations to this list from their experience. But many will agree that the listed set is mandatory for confident work.
Move and highlight key combinations
In my opinion, it is impossible to imagine without these keys correct work with documents. When you have to edit a document, every time you need to highlight a piece of text or move a few words to the side, grabbing the mouse means wasting a lot of time.
Basic combinations for moving:
I think that, having mastered these 10 key combinations, you will be able to confidently and most importantly quickly navigate within the document. These combinations become more useful when you need to highlight a piece of text. With the exception of the keys for moving around the table, if you add the pressed key to the other combinations Shift key, then you can select a word, paragraph, text before the beginning of the document, text at the end of the document, text at the beginning of the page, text at the end of the page. And using the Ctrl+A key combination you can select the entire document.
Frequently used combinations
This category of key combinations directly includes those that perform operations on objects (elements) of the document. What is a document element? Document elements include almost everything you work with in a document. These are: a symbol, a word, a group of words, a line, a paragraph, a picture, a table, an element of a diagram, an entire diagram, etc. The concept of an element in Word can also be defined as follows - everything that can be selected!
I have listed the most used key combinations that perform direct actions on an object. As I said earlier, everyone has their own experience and someone is probably ready to add to the above list. But I think that few will dispute the combinations given. After all, if you need to delete a word before the cursor, then it is much easier to press Ctrl+Backspace once than Backspace many times. Or if you need to highlight some fragment in italics, then it’s definitely easier to press Ctrl+I and everything will be as it should. After all, in this case you don’t have to take your hands off the keyboard and you can just continue typing.
Rarely used combinations
In this category I include those combinations that you can do without, but within the framework of a separate document they are very necessary. As an example, I will give the following situation: sometimes I write texts to order and in some cases I am given a condition - the text must consist of 2-2.5 thousand characters or 1 thousand words. Thus, I need to look at text statistics frequently. To do this, I press Ctrl+Shift+G, a statistics window opens in front of me, and I get the necessary information.
I have the following set of rarely used key combinations:
You begin to understand the importance of Word keyboard shortcuts when your typing speed goes beyond the capabilities of two-finger typing. If you start to master touch typing, the mouse becomes useless while typing. It only distracts, but hotkey combinations, on the contrary, begin to help you work efficiently.
Although I should agree with those who say “why learn combinations that I won’t use.” For such people I would like to say the following. I don't always use key combinations - it's not necessary. I don't know all the combinations - it's not necessary. But there are operations that need to be performed repeatedly, and it’s simply inconvenient to grab the mouse. Therefore, for myself, I learned those that I found useful. Which is what I advise you to do.
Designed to speed up your work in MS Office and make it more productive. Agree, it is much easier to press Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) on your keyboard, instead of executing this command in the traditional way by clicking the “copy” and “paste” buttons on the taskbar.
However, as you probably noticed, keyboard shortcuts are not assigned to all functions that the Microsoft office suite offers to our services. For example, I recently told you about how you can speed up your work with an MS Word document significantly. But this method has one significant drawback - after the bookmarks are created, you can use them only by going to the corresponding panel again and activating the right tool or using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+F5. There seems to be a combination, but by my standards it is very inconvenient. Now, if only I could replace it with something simpler, for example, CTRL+W (this combination is already used to close the current document, but, to be honest, I’ve never used it at all and I don’t really need it)…
On the other hand, the default “insert picture” tool does not have its own “ hotkey" This, of course, is not critical - we don’t add graphics to documents very often, but when you suddenly need to provide a document with a huge bunch of illustrations, you will “suddenly” find that switching the taskbar to the “insert” menu every time is somewhat tedious.
So let's solve these problems and learn not only how to set keyboard shortcuts in MS Word yourself, but also how to override the "factory" settings text editor!
Well, are you ready to assign hotkeys in MS Word?
Create your own keyboard shortcuts in MS Word
First of all, open "File" tab and select "Options" item. This time we need “Customize Ribbon” settings block. We select it from the list and see an intriguing phrase: "Customize the Ribbon and Keyboard Shortcuts". It seems we have come to the right place.
We don’t need a long list with available commands now; we look at the very bottom of the parameters window and see the line "Keyboard Shortcuts". Feel free to click "Settings..." button and admire the very unfriendly-looking Keyboard Settings window.
Let's see what keyboard shortcuts are set in MS Word by default for this command
In fact, there is nothing terrible here - although the list available commands and is referred to as English language, hints explaining the meaning remain in Russian, and the tools are structured in the same order in which they are located on the MS Word toolbar. That is, first, in the list on the left, I select “Categories: Insert Tab”, and then in the list on the right, the command “EditBookmark” ( edit bookmark - from English.).
Adding new keyboard shortcuts
As soon as the choice is made, the program displays the keyboard shortcut already in use (CTRL+SHIFT+F5). I select it and click the Delete button. Now I left-click in the “New keyboard shortcut” field and press CTRL + W on the keyboard, click “Assign” and “Ok” next. Done, I just redefined the hotkeys, making MS Word a little more convenient for myself.
At the same time, there are two subtleties:
- If you don’t like a “standard” keyboard shortcut, you don’t have to delete it. The program also provides that several hotkeys can be assigned to the same instrument.
- The new keyboard shortcut must be pressed on the keyboard, and not tried to be entered as text.
- If the new keyboard shortcut is already used by another function, the program will warn you about it
The first line is a warning that this key combination is already in use, the second line is that changes are written to the main template
Although, that's not all! Have you noticed the point "Save changes to..."? Yes, as in the case with, all changes can be applied both to a separate document and to the general template of the program ( Normal.dotm). I chose the second option, so when closing the text editor, I will need to follow the same steps that were described in that article.
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Hot combinations and WORD keys
To highlight in Word vertical block text, you must first press the key combination "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "F8". In addition, you can select a vertical block using the mouse while holding down the "Alt" key.
In Word, working in Cyrillic mode, sometimes you need characters that are only available in Latin mode, for example. @, $, & to avoid switching modes just press Alt key+ Ctrl + desired (or Shft+Alt+Ctrl + desired).
Hotkeys
Bold text - press Ctrl+B (or in Russian mode - Ctrl+I). It turns off in the same way.
Italic text - Ctrl+I or Сtrl+Y (in Russian - Ctrl+Ш or Ctrl+Н).
Underlined text - Ctrl+U (in Russian - Ctrl+G)
Text with double underline - Ctrl+Shift+D (Ctrl+Shift+in)
Text typed in capitals (reduced in capital letters) - Ctrl+Shift+K (Ctrl+Shift+L) (to change these attributes of an entire word, it is not necessary to select it entirely. It is only enough that the cursor is inside the word).
Paragraph alignment: left - Ctrl+q (Ctrl+th);
right - Ctrl+r (Ctrl+k);
in the center - Ctrl+e (Ctrl+у)
by format - Ctrl+j (Ctrl+o)
bulleted list- Ctrl+Shift+L (Ctrl+Shift+d)
Shift a paragraph to the right Ctrl+M (Ctrl+ь)
Increasing left indentation (except for the first line) - Ctrl+T (Ctrl+e)
Printing a document (in Word and almost all other programs) - Ctrl+P (ctrl+З).
Some useful notes for those who touch type and hate using the mouse:
Change the font in the text - press Ctrl+Shift+F (Ctrl+Shift+A), this will activate the font change window in the formatting panel. We type the name of the desired font in this panel (usually the first few characters are enough - then Windows completes the name automatically) and press “Enter”.
Change the font or paragraph style - similarly, press Ctrl+Shift+S (Ctrl+Shift+І), and enter the font name, for example, “Heading 1”. After pressing "Enter", the entered style is applied to the paragraph, and if the style does not exist, then it is created based on the formatting of the paragraph where the cursor is located.
Entering an endnote. You can, of course, go to the menu to do this, but this again means using the mouse! It is much easier to press Ctrl+Alt+F (Ctrl+Alt+A), and a footnote will immediately appear in the specified place in the text, and the cursor will move to the bottom of the page, where you can enter its description.
It is very easy to remove unused buttons from the panel by simply dragging them out of the panel with the mouse while holding down Alt; in the same way, when holding down Alt, you can change the location of the buttons without going into the options and settings windows (with pressed Alt+Ctrl - you can make a copy of the button). Using the same manipulations, you can place buttons in the menu and menu sections in the toolbar with buttons.
Sometimes a problem arises and you need to change the case of letters, to do this, stand on the word in which you need to change the case (or select several words) and press Shift+F3 several times, depending on how you want: All Capital Letters At the Beginning of Words, CAPITAL or Lowercase.
Word keyboard shortcuts
Hotkey table for MS Word:
(this table of Word hotkeys will help you make your work with the program more efficient; using even a few basic Word hotkey combinations when working with the program can significantly speed up the process of creating and editing documents).
Word hotkeys:
F1 - Call help or assistant
F2 - Move text or pictures
F3 - Insert AutoText Element
F4 - Repeat last action
F5 - Go (Edit menu)
F6 - Move to next area
F7 - Spelling (Tools menu)
F8 - Expand Selection
F9 - Update selected fields
F10 - Go to menu bar
F11 - move to next field
F12 - Execute the Save As command (File menu)
SHIFT+:
F1 - Call context help
F2 - Copy text
F3 - Change letter case
F4 - Find or Go Next
F5 - Go to previous fix
F6 - Go to previous window area
F7 - Thesaurus (Tools menu)
F8 - Decrease Selection
F9 - Display codes or field values
F10 - Display context menu
F11 - go to previous field
F12 - Execute the Save command (File menu)
ALT+:
F1 - Go to next field
F3 - Create AutoText Item
F4 - Exit Word
F5 - Previous program window sizes
F7 - Next error
F8 - Run macro
F9 - display codes or values of all fields
F10 - maximize the program window
F11 - Display VISUAL BASIC code
CTRL+ ALT+:
F1 - System Information
F2 - Open (File menu)
CTRL+:
F2 - Preview
F3 - Delete the selected fragment to the piggy bank
F4 - Close window
F5 - Previous dimensions of the document window
F6 - Go to next window
F7 - Move (window menu)
F8 - Size (window menu)
F9 - insert an empty field
F10 - Maximize or restore the document window
F11 - field lock
F12 - Execute the Open command (File menu)
We all dream of a “magic” button that, when pressed, would solve all our problems. Alas, she is not there yet.
However, in computer world We made sure that we could quickly and easily store any amount of a wide variety of information.
Texts, pages, pictures, photographs, calculations, reports, websites - this and much more can be easily kept as a keepsake with a simple “save” button.
Where to look for this miracle button? Each case has its own instructions!
Here is a user looking at the keyboard and thinking: “Interesting, huh? what is shown on the “save” button icon? The answer is simple - nothing! There is no beautiful and single “save” button. But, stop! There is no need to be upset.
There are analogues and convenient keyboard shortcuts that are easy to find and easy to remember:
- Simultaneous pressing of “Ctrl” + “S/ы”. Suitable for any text documents, most standard programs and browsers. Press easily and quickly with two fingers of the left hand.
- The button above the standard letter series or number block is “PrtScr”. This quick button“save” for any information on the computer screen. PrtScr takes a photo of the screen and easily displays the result as an image.
It is important to understand that after clicking on PrintScreen, you need to go to any editor - be it graphic or text - and open the saved image.
To open, you need to use the “Paste” function, which is easy to find in a small menu when you tap on the screen right click mouse or activate with another key combination – “Ctrl” + “V/M”.
3.Miracle button F12. It will appeal to advanced users who not only need to save a document, but also make a later copy of it. F12 performs the "Save As..." function and is ready to either ensure the safety of a completely new, unnamed document, or make a duplicate of an existing one, but under a different name. 
What does the “Save Page” button look like in a browser?
- For further study in the absence of the Internet;
- To return to it later if you have access to the World Wide Web.
Each goal has its own capabilities, but again it will be required magic button"save page"! And she’s gone again!
We solve problems sequentially, but the principles of operation will be approximately the same for all browsers, so you won’t have to worry about searching for a saving function in Opera, Mozilla, Chrome or somewhere else.
Explorer bookmarks 
Firefox - To ensure the safety of the page for subsequent viewing, you need to find in the line where the page address (Url) is indicated "asterisk" in Chrome– in the browser Opera it will be “heart”– and click on this symbol. When hovered over with the mouse, the icon may show different names: “add page to bookmarks”, “add to favorites or reading list”. It doesn't matter. The essence of all such symbols is the same.
Saving bookmarks in Chrome 
Bookmarks in Opera When clicked, a menu will be displayed where the storage location will be specified and when you click on “done” the selected page will move to a safe place.
Essentially this is a bookmark, but that’s what we need. To now launch your saved site, simply search for desired name on home page browser: in the top menu bar, as a large icon, or in another place where the word “bookmarks” appears.
The paths are identical to saving the document, that is, from the keyboard:
- Combination “Ctrl” + “S/ы” with the appearance of a window and clarification of the storage location.
- “PrtScr” key for photographing a page and then inserting it into any editor or document.
- "Save As..." function. It is launched either from a menu called up with the right mouse button, or by clicking on this phrase in the browser menu. The browser menu is most often encrypted with three vertical dots, when clicked on, a rather large list opens different functions and opportunities.
“Save” buttons in Word, Corel, Excel
The most important thing for the user is to figure out where the “save” button is in Word, Excel, and standard work programs. For graphics lovers, you will have to master the specifics of Corel, Photoshop, and their analogues. Believe me, it's not difficult!
- Floppy disk – “information storage”. Elementary.
- The “save” button in Corel has a similar appearance.
Knowledge of the following points will help ensure the safety of the created document, file, image:
- "Save" or "Save As...". You can find these function lines in the menu. It opens either by clicking on “File” in the top field of the open program window, or through the “Office” button, which looks like different-sized colored squares in the upper left corner of the document latest versions Word and Excel.
- "Export". Typical function for graphic editors, allowing you to save created images in the most different formats. In short: when you click on “Export,” a window appears for specifying saving parameters. Then “ok” and you’re done!
Works great in office and graphics programs combinations “Ctrl” + “S/ы” and F12.
What should I do and why is the “Save” button missing or inactive?
And now here's the riddle: save button doesn't work. What to do? The situation is quite typical - especially for Corel Draw programs installed using demo versions or through pirated software.
It is best to solve such problems preventively, that is, use licensed programs and don’t worry about failures.
But since the problem already exists, we will have to deal with it.
There is an interesting way to do this:
1.Add to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts .
0.0.0.0 apps.corel.com
0.0.0.0 mc.corel.com
corel.com
2.Delete the folder.
for Win 7-10
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Corel\Messages
for WinXP
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Corel\Messages
Judging by the reviews of those in similar trouble, the recipe is effective and helps solve problems with preservation.
In "1C" similar difficulties are removed by adjusting access rights for specific user. The way is simple: “Service” - “Users” - “Setting up additional user rights”.
There, select the employee who has problems with the visibility of the save buttons, and put a checkmark in his rights in the table editing line. And everything works again.
It turns out that the “magic” save button still exists on computers, laptops, programs and browsers. Of course, you need to find it first, but with the help of all the instructions described, it’s unlikely to be difficult anymore!