At this time of the year you may wish that there was some way to finish the many assignments you have to type much more quickly. Sorry, I don’t know how to do that. However, there are some keyboard shortcuts that you can use that may help save time.

You may already know about the editing shortcuts like Ctrl+C (Copy), Ctrl+V (Paste) and Ctrl+X (Cut), and formatting shortcuts like Ctrl+b (Bold), Ctrl+i (italics), Ctrl+u (underline). There are other keyboard shortcuts that you may find useful when typing up assignments. Holding down Ctrl+Shift and the Plus key, (usually located next to the Delete key on your keyboard), will switch your font to Superscript. Holding the keys down a second time will switch back to normal font. Similarly holding down Ctrl and the Plus key turns on Subscript, and holding them down a second time turns it off.

There are many more keyboard shortcuts you may find useful. You can find a list that relate specifically to Microsoft Word at the back of the Word Level 1 workbook available from Ask I.T. You can also find a more comprehensive list of Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts on the Microsoft website.