Thursday, May 30th, 2013

Word 2010 and 2013 Tip – Quick Accented Characters

A Quick Guide of Shortcut Keyboard Combinations to Accent Marks over Characters

Word allows you to create accented letters quickly using its inbuilt accent shortcuts. To do this, press the accent shortcut key combination, then release, and follow it up with the letter to accent.

Some of the more commonly used shortcuts are:

Circumflex – Ctrl+Shift+^ (caret/6) followed by (a, e, i, o, u)

Grave – Ctrl+` (accent/grave) followed by (a, e, i, o, u)

Acute – Ctrl+’ (apostrophe/quotation mark) followed by (a, e, i, o, u, y)

Cedilla – Ctrl+, (comma/less than) followed by (c)

Umlaut – Ctrl+Shift+: (colon/semi colon) followed by (a, e, i, o, u, y)

Helen Bradley

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Word 2010 & 2013 Tip – What Format is THAT?!

Learn more about the formatting applied to text in your document with this handy Keyboard Shortcut

If you want to quickly find out what formatting has been applied to any piece of text, click in the text and press Shift + F1. A task pane will open in the right of Word window. This Reveal Formatting task pane displays details about the text format being used for the word that your insertion point is closest to.

With this task pane open you can click on any piece if text to learn more about its formatting.

Helen Bradley