Let's take the tedium of long tailed-mousy commands out of our Microsoft Word processing by adopting these succinct keyboard shorties Ashish Bhatia SOME wise old owl has opined that picture is worth a thousand words. But that was eons before word proces- sors were invented. In this day and age it's Microsoft Word that helps most of us paint thousands of wordy pictures! So it’s high time we took the tedium of long tailed-mousy com- mands out of our Microsoft Word pro- cessing by adopting these succinct keyboard shorties, Function keys F 1; Gets Help or visit Microsoft Of- fice Online F2: Moves text or graphics Inserts an AutoText (AutoTe: storage location for text or graphics you want to use again, such as a stan- dard contract clause or a long distri- bution list. Each selection of text or graphics is recorded as an AutoText entry and is assigned a unique name.) entry (after Word displays the entry) F4: Repeats the last action F5: Chooses the Go To command (Edit menu) 6: Goes to the next pane or frame F7; Chooses the Spelling command (Tools menu) F8: Extendsa selection F9: Updates selected fields P10; Activates the menu bar F11: Goes to the next field F12: Save As command (File menu) Shift + function keys Shift + F1: Starts context-sensitive Help or reveals formatting Shift + F2: Copies text Shift + F3: Changes case of letters Shift + F4: Repeats a Find or Go To action Shift + F6: Moves to the last change Shift + F6: Goes to the previous pane or frame Shift + F7: Launches ‘Thesaurus (Tools menu, Language subment) Shift + FB: Shrinks a selection Shift + F9; Switches between a field code and its result Shift + P10: Displays a shortcut menu ‘Shift + F11: Goes to the previous field Shift + F12; Save command (Filemenu) Control + function keys Ctrl + F2: Print Preview command (File menu) Ctrl + F3: Cut to the Spike (Spike: A special AutoText entry that stores multiple deletions. Microsoft Word appends one item to another until you paste the contents asa group ina new location in your document, You can also use the Microsoft Office Clip board to get the same result.). Ctrl + F4: Closes the window Ctrl + F5: Restores the document window size (for example, after max- imising it) Ctrl + F6: Goes to the next window Ctrl + F7: Move command (title bar shortcut menu) Ctrl + F8; Size command (title bar ‘shortcut menu) Ctrl + F9: Inserts an empty field Ctrl + F10: Maximises document window Ctrl + P11: Locks a fieldCtrl + F12: Open command (File menu) Control + Shift + Function key Ctrl + Shift + F3: Inserts contents of Spike (Spike: A special AutoText en- try that stores multiple deletions. Word appends one item toanother un- til you paste the contents as a group in a new location in your document. You can also use the Microsoft Office Clip: board to get the same result. ‘Ctrl + Shift + F5: Edit a bookmarkAW09 Wado Zz + LV + EAD uoReMLaojU WEISS rsdeidsiq tLa + IV + 190, orsa09 sta + uns + 1v ay Won Uny + WINS + IY aensy, sAeydsia Jor S909 :0at eats = TD