And you can press Esc any time to leave selection mode. Pressing Shift+F8 works that same cycle, but backwards. The first press enters selection mode, the second press selects the word next to the insertion point, the third selects the whole sentence, the fourth all the characters in the paragraph, and the fifth the whole document. You can also press F8 up to five times to extend the selection outward. While in this mode, you can use the arrow keys to extend your selection. Shift+Page Down/Page Up: Extend selection down or up one screen.Ctrl+Shift+Home/End: Extend selection to the beginning or end of the document.Shift+Home: Extend selection to the beginning of the line.Shift+End: Extend selection to the end of the line.

Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down Arrow: Extend selection to the beginning or end of the paragraph.

Shift+Up/Down Arrow: Extend selection up or down one line.

Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right Arrow: Extend your current selection by one word to the left or right.

Shift+Left/Right Arrow: Extend your current selection by one character to the left or right.

Using the Shift key to modify a lot of those key combos lets you select text in different ways. You may have noticed from the previous section that the arrow keys are used for moving your insertion point around, and the Ctrl key is used to modify that movement. If you just opened a document, Shift+F5 moves you to the last point you were editing before closing the document.

Shift+F5: Cycle through the last three locations where the insertion point was placed.

F5: Open the Find dialog box with the вЂњGo ToвЂќ tab selected, so you can quickly move to a specific page, section, bookmark, and so on.

Alt+Ctrl+Page Up/Page Down: Move to the top or bottom of the current window.

Ctrl+Page Up/Page Down: Move to the previous or next browse object (after performing a search).

Page Up/Page Down:В Move up or down one screen.

Ctrl+Home: Move to the beginning of the document.

Home: Move to the beginning of the current line.

Ctrl+End:В Move to the end of the document.

End:В Move to the end of the current line.

Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow: Move up or down one paragraph.

Up/Down Arrow: Move up or down one line.

Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow: Move one word to the left or right.Left/Right Arrow: Move the insertion point (cursor) one character to the left or right.This can save time if you have a long document and donвЂ™t want to scroll through the entire thing, or simply want to easily move between words or sentences. You can use keyboard shortcuts to easily navigate throughout your document. If you have a word selected, Shift+F7 looks up that word in the thesaurus. F9: Refresh the field codes in the current selection.Alt+Q: Go to the вЂњTell me what you want to doвЂќ box.Alt+Ctrl+S: Split a window or remove the split view.There are many general program shortcuts in Microsoft Word that make it easier for you to do everything from save your document to undo a mistake.

Basic microsoft word keyboard shortcuts