In this article I’ve explained how to assign and remove keyboard shortcuts or shortcut keys to give a short cut that will save your mouse hand. Drop down the Save changes in: list to do that. Note: you can save changes in a new template, if you want to keep your standard Word template as it is. When you’ve assigned your shortcuts, press the Close button on the Customize Keyboard menu and the OK button on the Customize Ribbon menu. Note: if you’ve reassigned a shortcut key and want to put it back to how it was, you will need to find its original command and add it back in there. If you want to remove the keyboard shortcut you’ve just created, or one that you keep hitting by accident, highlight the one you want to remove and press the Remove button beneath it. How do I remove or cancel a keyboard shortcut? The shortcut will move into the Current keys section. If you want to assign this shortcut, go ahead and press Assign. Of course, this might not matter, if the other command is one you don’t use anyway. If I assign Ctrl+C to AllCaps, it will then move over from EditCopy to AllCaps and will no longer be available for EditCopy.
Here we can see that Ctrl+C is already assigned to EditCopy. What if the shortcut key I want to use has already been assigned? I click on the AllCaps Command and then press the new shortcut key I want to assign to that – in this case I’ve chosen Ctrl+C – so I hit those keys and Ctrl+C gets added into the box under Press new shortcut key: to change the highlighted text or next text I type to be ALL IN CAPITALS). Let’s say I wanted to change the shortcut for AllCaps (i.e. If you scroll down the list of tabs, headed Categories, you will find one called Commands Not in the Ribbon which is a useful list. You might have known how to do that already: here is where that shortcut can be set, removed or changed. Here you can see under Current keys that Bold has the shortcut keys Ctrl+B and Ctrl+Shift+B, which means that you can hold down Control and the b key at the same time, or Control and Shift and the b at the same time to make the text that’s highlighted or the next text you type bold. However, if you move to the Home Tab (by clicking on it) you will see some more familiar items – and note that they’re in alphabetical order. So when you first go into this menu, you’ll see the File Tab and a load of things you probably don’t normally do: In the right-hand box, you will find all of the commands or actions associated with that tab. Basically, in the left-hand box you will find all of the tabs (and a few more) that you see in your Word ribbon. Now click on Keyboard shortcuts: Customize. Once you’ve followed the trail to the Customize Ribbon dialogue box, you should be here: See this article for screenshots and more detail.
Please note that these instructions are for these versions of Word and might not work in the same way on a Mac or in an older version of Word. In this article we will learn about assigning shortcut keys or keyboard shortcuts or short-cuts in Word 2010, 20 for PC.