On the Home tab, in the Quick Style gallery, click the Title style. Place your cursor inside (or highlight) the text you just typed.
Type the words Word 2007 Galleries, then press Enter. Press the actual keys on your keyboard - that is, Alt + N (for the en dash) or Alt + M (for the em dash) if you want to use the same shortcuts I use. Follow these steps to easily create a title by applying a style: Place your cursor at the beginning of the first line of text. Select En Dash, then in the Press New Shortcut Key box, type the keyboard shortcut you want to use. Join Alicia Katz Pollock for an in-depth discussion in this video, Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a style, part of Word 2010: Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts. To assign a custom keyboard shortcut to a command or item in Word, use these steps: Open Microsoft Word.
Scroll (or use your arrow key) to move down to the bottom of the list and select Common Symbols.Ĥ. How to create custom keyboard shortcut in Word. Select All Commands (or Popular Commands) from the Categories list (or use the arrow key on your keyboard to move down the list).ģ. And much like with character format, Word has a bunch of faster. You can use the shortcuts to use format to selected text or to whatever you type next if no text is selected. Then you add your text for the separate style. Check for any message below the Current Keys box to see if this key combination is used for something else in Word. You can add a Style Separator to the end of a paragraph using the Ctrl+Alt+Enter Keyboard Shortcut. Open Customise Keyboard Shortcuts (File > Options > Customise Ribbon, or use keyboard shortcut Alt + F + T).Ģ. Word also has loads of keyboard combinations for applying character format (and paragraph formatting, however that’s covered in the next area. If a keyboard shortcut is already assigned to the selected style, you can cancel out of these screens and use it, or change it by continuing with the steps below. Two shortcuts I couldn’t live without are those that create the em and en dash, and for these I’ve assigned the shortcuts Alt + N (for the en dash) and Alt + M (for the em dash). Think about the type of work you do and the commands you use frequently that have you reaching for your mouse. Click in the Press new shortcut key edit box, press the shorcut key combination you want to use to apply this. On the Modify Style dialog box, click the Format button in the lower-left corner and select Shortcut key from the popup menu. Once you’ve done this, you’ll note that not all commands have default keyboard shortcuts assigned for some, you’ll need to create your own. Click the down arrow on the style and select Modify from the drop-down menu. How to assign a command to a keyboard shortcutįirst find out which default keyboard shortcuts you already have assigned in Word (see Fiendish Tip).