Handy Shortcuts for Microsoft Office and Windows

Ever have trouble finding something in Microsoft Word? Wish you knew that cool keyboard shortcut to save or get back to where you were working in a document instead of searching and trying to remember where you left off? Wish you could navigate around Windows quicker? Well then, this article is for you.

Microsoft shortcuts are usually difficult to remember, and trying to find them is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but once you find them, these shortcuts can be invaluable time-savers for anything

There are several shortcuts that are particularly useful when navigating around Windows. While you may know about the Alt-Tab keyboard shortcut to bring up the task list and switch between programs, there is also the Windows-Tab combination. This combination cycles through the taskbar buttons that you currently have open in an arranged tile view. Each consecutive press of the Tab button will bring up the next window in the arrangement, just like with Alt-Tab.

Another easy shortcut to use if you need to get back to your desktop quickly is to use the Windows-D combination. By pressing the Windows key and the D key simultaneously you can minimize all of your open windows quickly. To restore all the windows again is easy, you just press Windows-D again and it will bring all your windows back up in the order they were in when you minimized them.

When working with Microsoft Word, while at its base, is a word processor with a lot of intricacies that some people either don’t even realize are there or are too complicated for the everyday user, however, there are some shortcuts that cut straight through to what you need. Two that everyone should use, since everyone has their own spelling issues, is how to use spell-check when it isn’t enabled. By pressing the F7 key you can spell-check your entire document, however, if you only need a certain section checked, highlight the part that needs checking and then press F7 and instead of spell-checking the whole document it will check that section instead.