Adding some key combinations to your shortcuts list lets you keep your hands on the keyboard and off your mouse. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

Microsoft Word may seem like it is still a basic writing app, but it has gathered plenty of easy-to-use shortcuts over the years. Tasks that you find tedious likely to have a tool designed to make ...

Back in 2008, I described how to copy and paste only a paragraph's formatting, not its text. Allen Wyatt’s WordTips site provides a great list of keyboard shortcuts for altering a paragraph’s spacing ...

Having very recently introduced a new Paste As Plain Text module to PowerToys, Microsoft is now bringing the same option to Word. Following the lead of many other applications, Microsoft's word ...

Reader Kang Na would like to customize his Word 2011 experience across computers. He writes: I’ve added some keyboard shortcut to Microsoft Word 2011 but would like to know the best way to back up and ...

If you frequently use Microsoft Word ( ; $400 as part of Office 2008), you know that shortcuts and small time-savers can make a big difference at the end of the day. Finding them is the tricky part.