ENGL 2311 Introduction to Technical Writing

ENGL 2311-001: M-F 8:00 - 9:50
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Important MS Word Skills 

Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

Moving the Cursor

Ctrl+R/L Arrow: Beginning of current/start of next word
Ctrl+Up/Down Arrow: Beginning of current/start of next paragraph
Ctrl+Home: Top of entire document
Ctrl+End: End of entire document

Selecting Text

Shift+R/L Arrow: Select single letter
Ctrl+Shift+R/L Arrow: Select to beginning/end of word
Shift+Up/Down Arrow: Select all to new location of cursor
Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down Arrow: Select rest of paragraph to beginning/fuend
Ctrl+A: Select all

Correcting Errors

Formatting Dashes

Ctrl+F: Find Keyboard or Keypad (-): Hyphen
Ctrl+H: Replace Ctrl+Keypad(-): En dash
Ctrl+Z: Undo Ctrl+Alt+Keypad(-): Em dash
Ctrl+Y: Redo

Formatting Text

Moving Text

Ctrl+I: Italicize Ctrl+C: Copy
Ctrl+B: Bold Ctrl+X: Cut
Ctrl+U: Underline Ctrl+V: Paste
Ctrl+D: Open font menu

Managing Documents

Selecting Open Documents

Ctrl+S: Save Alt+Tab: Switch between windows
Alt+F, A: Save As Ctrl+Tab: Switch between tabs
Ctrl+O: Open
Ctrl+N: New document
Ctrl+P: Print

Using Styles

Changing fonts and point sizes

Changing spacing between paragraphs

Creating new styles

Indenting block quotations

Using Headers and Footers

Inserting header and footer text

Inserting page numbers

Suppressing first page headers and footers

Tables

Creating tables

Setting table, row, column, and cell properties

Setting internal cell margins

Formatting borders and shading

Various Useful Tips

Inserting page breaks

Switching upper/lower case

Setting tabs