Word Keyboard Shortcuts — Full List & Interactive Guide
Every essential Microsoft Word keyboard shortcut for document formatting, text editing, quick navigation, and editorial review. Switch between Windows and Mac layouts and hover or click any shortcut to illuminate physical keys on the visual keyboard.
Copy selected text, table, or graphics to clipboard
Tip: Works with formatting retained across Office applications.
Paste contents from clipboard into current cursor location
Tip: Use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting.
Undo the previous editing action
Tip: Can be pressed repeatedly to step back multiple revisions.
Redo the last undone action or repeat last formatting
Tip: Repeats the last command when nothing is in the undo stack.
Open the Navigation search pane to locate words or phrases
Open the Find & Replace dialogue box
Tip: Supports wildcard characters and paragraph marker replacement.
Select all text, headers, and tables in the document
Insert a clickable hyperlink into selected text
Apply or remove bold weight to selection
Apply or remove italic slant to selection
Apply or remove single underline styling
Cycle text casing between UPPERCASE, lowercase, and Title Case
Tip: Cycles through all three case formats with each tap.
Increase font size by one point increment
Decrease font size by one point increment
Center paragraph alignment between page margins
Left-align the current paragraph
Right-align the current paragraph
Justify paragraph to align flush with both margins
Strip all manual formatting back to Normal style
Tip: Instantly cleans pasted text with messy font styles.
Jump cursor to the very beginning of the document
Jump cursor to the very end of the document
Insert a hard page break at cursor position
Tip: Far cleaner than hitting enter repeatedly to push text to the next page.
Move cursor one full word to the left
Move cursor one full word to the right
Launch the Spelling & Grammar Editor pane
Display detailed Word Count statistics box
Toggle Track Changes markup recording on or off
Insert a new review comment at selected text
Frequently Asked Questions about Microsoft Word Shortcuts
How do I toggle uppercase, lowercase, and Title Case in Microsoft Word?
Highlight your desired text and press Shift + F3. Pressing it once converts selection to UPPERCASE, twice converts to lowercase, and three times converts to Title Case with capitalized initial letters.
What is the fastest shortcut to remove unwanted formatting in Word?
Select your paragraphs and press Ctrl + Spacebar (or Cmd + Spacebar on Mac). This strips all inline character font styling, colors, and bold/italic overrides back to your document standard Normal style.
How do I jump directly to the beginning or end of a long Word document?
Press Ctrl + Home to jump immediately to the document title/first page. Press Ctrl + End to jump to the very last paragraph of the final page.
Why do some Word shortcuts differ on macOS?
On macOS, Microsoft Word maps standard control commands to Command (⌘). For example, Bold is Cmd+B, Paste is Cmd+V, and navigation word-jumps use Option + Left/Right arrow instead of Ctrl + Arrow.
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