Bold as a character style) Where to Save the Shortcut – Document or Template? Numbered List Ctrl + Alt + K (the K key is next to L for bulleted list) Here’s some suggestions from our experience: Headings are already Ctrl + Alt + so expanding that to other letters is easier to remember. Office Watch suggests using Ctrl + Alt + for style shortcuts.
You can assign any shortcut combination you like even overriding in-built shortcuts if you never use the original. This one is unassigned, so we can continue and set this as our new shortcut.
We’re not sure if we want to lose the existing shortcut, so we b ackspace to delete Ctrl +Q and try Alt+Q instead. If we continue to assign Ctrl +Q to this style, it will overwrite the existing assignment and set the new shortcut to this style. However, as you can see above, we receive a message saying that shortcut is already in use for another style. We have decided that we want to use Ctrl +Q for our shortcut. Put your cursor in the “Press new shortcut key” field and type the shortcut that you want to use. If there is already a shortcut assigned to this style, this will show under Current Keys in the middle section of the dialog. In the Modify Styles dialog that opens, click on Format and select Shortcut Key. (If the style you are looking for is not in the list, see section below to find out how to put it there.) Now, find the Quote style in the list, click on the arrow to the right of it, and select Modify. Go to Home | Styles and click the arrow at the bottom right-hand corner of the Styles group, or press Ctr l + Alt + Shift + S. Let’s say we’re writing a paper that includes a lot of quotations, so we want to be able to quickly and easily apply the Quote style to that text. Mysterious are the ways of Microsoft.Īny type of style can be assigned a keyboard shortcut Paragraph, Character or Linked. We’ve explained the problem with Heading styles which Word installs for Heading 1 to Heading 9 but only in-built shortcuts for the first three heading styles. You may be familiar with using keyboard shortcuts to such has Ctrl +B or Ctrl +I to quickly change text to bold or italic but those don’t apply styles, just individual character formatting. You’re not limited to the in-built shortcuts for Normal and a few Headings. You can set up your own shortcuts to quickly apply any style in Word.