frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Chief Technologist for AI at VMware by Broadcom. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as a podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

MS Word style formatting shortcut keys for Mac

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Recently I started to spend a lot of time in MS word again, and as a stickler for details I dislike a mishmash of font types throughout my document. I spend a lot of time on configuring the styles of the document, yet when I paste something from other documents, MS word tend to ignore these. Correcting the format burns a lot of time and it simply annoys the crap out of me.
To avoid this further, I started to dig around to find some font and style related shortcut keys. Yesterday I tweeted the shortcut key to apply the normal style and by the looks of retweets many of you are facing the same challenge.
Below is a short list of shortcut keys that I use. There are many more, share the common ones you like to use. As I use Mac I listed the Mac shortcut combination. Replace CTRL for CMD if you are using MS Word on a windows machine.
Select text:
Select all: CTRL+A
Select sentence: CMD + click
Select word: Double click
Select paragraph: Triple click
Formatting:
Clear formatting: CTRL+spacebar
Apply Normal Style: Shift+CMD+N
Header 1: CMD+ALT+1
Header 2: CMD+ALT+2
Header 3: CMD+ALT+3
Change Case: CMD+Option+C (repeat combination to cycle through options)
Indent paragraph: CTRL+Shift+M
Remove indent: CMD+Shift+M
Find and replace: F5

frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Chief Technologist for AI at VMware by Broadcom. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as a podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman

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