How do I customise keyboard shortcuts in Word?

Dear Christina

Thank you for attending Excel Intermediate course. I hope you enjoyed it.

The way you can assign your won shortcut keys in Word is by following these steps:

Step 1: Choose Tools > Customize…
Step 2: Click on the Commands Tab
Step 3: Click on the keyboard… button
Step 4: You can choose the category on the left hand side and the relevant commands on the right hand side.

You can type the new keyboard shortcut of your choice in the Press new shortcut key: box.

Please note that if you click on the command that already has been assigned a shortcut key then the shortcut key command will be displayed in the Current Keys Box.

When you enter a common shortcut key such as CTRL X it notifies you which command has it been allocated to.

It is important not to overwrite the existing shortcut key commands in case other people may use that computer. I would suggest you to use most of your shortcut key by pressing Alt as there are not many shortcut keys that use the ALT key but on the other hand CTRL is the most common for various shortcut keys!

I hope this helps!!

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Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003