If you decide to stick with the default document viewer from Windows O.S. you can speed things up a bit with these shortcut combos. Most of them are quite common to text editing apps, so you should feel right at home. If you want to learn shortcuts the other way around (learn what a certain keyboard shortcut does across programs) DO check out our Shortcuts of the day.
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Shortcut key |
Action |
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Ctrl+N |
Create a new document |
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Ctrl+O |
Open an existing document |
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Ctrl+S |
Save changes to a document |
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F12 |
Save the document as a new file |
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Ctrl+P |
Print a document |
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Alt+F4 |
Close WordPad |
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Ctrl+Z |
Undo a change |
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Ctrl+Y |
Redo a change |
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Ctrl+A |
Select the entire document |
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Ctrl+X |
Cut a selection |
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Ctrl+C |
Copy a selection to the Clipboard |
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Ctrl+V |
Paste a selection from the Clipboard |
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Ctrl+B |
Make selected text bold |
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Ctrl+I |
Italicize selected text |
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Ctrl+U |
Underline selected text |
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Ctrl+= |
Make selected text subscript |
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Ctrl+Shift+= |
Make selected text superscript |
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Ctrl+L |
Align text left |
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Ctrl+E |
Align text center |
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Ctrl+R |
Align text right |
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Ctrl+J |
Justify text |
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Ctrl+1 |
Set single line spacing |
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Ctrl+2 |
Set double line spacing |
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Shortcut key |
Action |
|---|---|
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Ctrl+5 |
Set line spacing to 1.5 |
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Ctrl+Shift+> |
Increase the font size |
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Ctrl+Shift+< |
Decrease the font size |
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Ctrl+Shift+A |
Change characters to all capitals |
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Ctrl+Shift+L |
Change the bullet style |
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Ctrl+D |
Insert a Microsoft Paint drawing |
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Ctrl+F |
Find text in a document |
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F3 |
Find the next instance of the text in the Find dialog box |
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Ctrl+H |
Replace text in a document |
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Ctrl+Left Arrow |
Move the cursor one word to the left |
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Ctrl+Right Arrow |
Move the cursor one word to the right |
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Ctrl+Up Arrow |
Move the cursor to the line above |
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Ctrl+Down Arrow |
Move the cursor to the line below |
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Ctrl+Home |
Move to the beginning of the document |
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Ctrl+End |
Move to the end of the document |
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Ctrl+Page Up |
Move up one page |
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Ctrl+Page Down |
Move down one page |
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Ctrl+Delete |
Delete the next word |
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F10 |
Display keytips |
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Shift+F10 |
Show the current shortcut menu |
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F1 |
Open WordPad Help |