{"id":1125,"date":"2015-10-06T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T07:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:22:48","slug":"word-keyboard-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/word-keyboard-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating keyboard shortcuts in Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

When using software, some people like to point-and-click, others like to stick to the keyboard. If you’re in the latter camp, then you’ve probably encountered a handful of menu\/toolbar\/ribbon buttons with no keyboard shortcut in various pieces of software. Microsoft Word helpfully allows you to assign your own shortcuts to functions with no current shortcut, or to re-assign the shortcut for a function if the default doesn’t fit your reflexes!<\/p>\n

Word count is a function dear to my heart that doesn’t have a default keyboard shortcut in Word. Yes, you usually get a quick indication in status bar at the bottom of the window, but the “real” word count function provides a lot more detail, as shown below:<\/p>\n

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I’ve assigned a custom keyboard shortcut for this function so that I can open it any time I want by clicking Ctrl<\/b> and the full stop\/period key together.<\/p>\n

To assign a custom keyboard shortcut in Word 2013 (should be similar in other flavours):<\/p>\n

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  1. \"Customize<\/a>Click File | Options<\/strong>, to open the Word Options<\/em> dialog.<\/li>\n
  2. Click Customize Ribbon<\/strong> in the left-hand panel of the dialog.<\/li>\n
  3. Beside Keyboard shortcuts<\/i>, click Customize…<\/b>. The Customize Keyboard<\/i> dialog opens.<\/li>\n
  4. This is the tricky bit: find and select the command for which you want to assign a custom shortcut. You can select a command category from the list on the left, then a specific command from that category in the list on the right. \"Word<\/a>Notes:<\/b>\n