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Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts

Document text, paragraph, review, and navigation shortcuts.

34 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 11, 2026

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Every system Mac Windows
Everything Clipboard Comments and review Editing Files and printing Navigation Paragraphs and lists Search Selection Text formatting
Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Toggle bold text Text formatting Windows CtrlB Source
Toggle italic text Text formatting Windows CtrlI Source
Begin a new page Document body Windows CtrlEnter Source
Make the paragraph Heading 1 Paragraph style Windows CtrlAlt1 Source
Restore the Normal paragraph style Paragraph style Windows CtrlShiftN Source
Attach a review comment Cursor position or selection Windows CtrlAltM Source
Toggle revision tracking Track Changes Windows CtrlShiftE Source
Reveal hidden formatting marks Use the digit row Windows CtrlShift8 Source
Center the current paragraph Paragraph alignment Windows CtrlE Source
Add a footnote reference Cursor position Windows CtrlAltF Source
Copy selection Selection Mac CmdC 1 more variant Source
Cut selection Selection Mac CmdX 1 more variant Source
Paste clipboard Document Mac CmdV 1 more variant Source
Paste plain text Document Windows CtrlShiftV Source
Select all Document Windows CtrlA Source
Undo change Document Windows CtrlZ Source
Redo change Document Windows CtrlY Source
Open document File Windows CtrlO Source
New document File Windows CtrlN Source
Save document File Windows CtrlS Source
Close document File Windows CtrlW Source
Print Document Windows CtrlP Source
Find text Document Windows CtrlF Source
Go To Document Windows CtrlG Source
Underline Selection Windows CtrlU Source
Left align Paragraph Windows CtrlL Source
Right align Paragraph Windows CtrlR Source
Smaller font One point Windows Ctrl[ Source
Larger font One point Windows Ctrl] Source
Document start Navigation Windows CtrlHome Source

About Microsoft Word and its shortcuts

Word has carried its shortcut vocabulary through decades of releases, which is why so much of it feels familiar in other editors. Its commands divide into text formatting, selection and movement by word, paragraph or screen, and document level work such as navigating, reviewing and printing. The review and navigation commands are the ones most people never learn and miss most once they do.

Word for Mac keeps its own list, and the web version drops a large part of the desktop set because the browser owns those keys first. Some commands also depend on the ribbon layout of your release, so an older or newer Word can disagree with what you see here.

Where the Microsoft Word keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Microsoft Word. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Microsoft Word, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task