Andy Rathbone's Blog » keyboard shortcuts http://www.andyrathbone.com Writer of the "Windows For Dummies" series, Andy Rathbone answers a different reader's question each week. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:30:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7′s WordPad http://www.andyrathbone.com/2010/01/20/keyboard-shortcuts-in-windows-7s-wordpad/ http://www.andyrathbone.com/2010/01/20/keyboard-shortcuts-in-windows-7s-wordpad/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:00:32 +0000 Andy Rathbone http://www.andyrathbone.com/?p=1084 Keyboard ShortcutsMost people begin computing by poking their way through menus, picking and choosing tasks as they stumble across them.

When you’ve worked with a program for awhile, you might prefer learning a few keyboard shortcuts: quick key combinations that perform tasks faster than you can click a menu. Windows 7 offers zillions of keyboard shortcuts; some are new, some have been around since the first version of Windows.

These keyboard shortcuts all work in Windows 7′s WordPad program:

Ctrl+N Create a new document
Ctrl+O Open an existing document
Ctrl+S Save changes to a document
F12 Save the document as a new file
Ctrl+P Print a document
Alt+F4 Close WordPad
Ctrl+Z Undo a change
Ctrl+Y Redo a change
Ctrl+A Select the entire document
Ctrl+X Cut a selection
Ctrl+C Copy a selection to the Clipboard
Ctrl+V Paste a selection from the Clipboard
Ctrl+B Make selected text bold
Ctrl+I Italicize selected text
Ctrl+U Underline selected text
Ctrl+= Make selected text subscript
Ctrl+Shift+= Make selected text superscript
Ctrl+L Align text left
Ctrl+E Align text center
Ctrl+R Align text right
Ctrl+J Justify text
Ctrl+1 Set single line spacing
Ctrl+2 Set double line spacing
Ctrl+5 Set line spacing to 1.5
Ctrl+Shift+> Increase the font size
Ctrl+Shift+< Decrease the font size
Ctrl+Shift+A Change characters to ALL CAPITALS
Ctrl+Shift+L Change the bullet style
Ctrl+D Insert a Microsoft Paint drawing
Ctrl+F Find text in a document
F3 Find the next instance of that text
Ctrl+H Replace text in a document
Ctrl+Left Arrow Move the cursor one word to the left
Ctrl+Right Arrow Move the cursor one word to the right
Ctrl+Up Arrow Move the cursor to the line above
Ctrl+Down Arrow Move the cursor to the line below
Ctrl+Home Move to the beginning of the document
Ctrl+End Move to the end of the document
Ctrl+Page Up Move up one page
Ctrl+Page Down Move down one page
Ctrl+Delete Delete the next word
F10 Display keytips
Shift+F10 Show the current shortcut menu
F1 Open WordPad Help

Windows 7 offers many other keyboard shortcuts; many of them work in Windows Vista and Windows XP, as well.

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