How to add Special Characters on Microsoft Office Word

I would like to share to you how you can add special characters by just pressing two or three keys simultaneously. Sit back and read it. It works on all Windows: Window 7, Window 10, etc.

Let start with this,

à/è/ì/ò/ù – you can add this character by just pressing Ctrl + ‘ (Accent grave) follow by the vowel you want it to change to that form

á/é/í/ó/ú – This can be done by pressing these keys together Ctrl + ‘ (Apostrophe) follow by the vowel you want it to change to that form

ä/ë/ï/ö/ü – can be done by the command; Ctrl + shift + : (colon), follow by the vowel

ã/ē/ī/õ/ū/: Do these by pressing Ctrl + shift + ~ (Tilde), follow by the vowel

â/ê/î/ô/û: To do these press the key Ctrl + ^ (caret) follow by the vowel you want to type like that

Ø/ø:

How to add Different mood faces by using Emoticons

🙂 – This is done typing colon (:), hyphen (-) and close bracket ) together. It automatically change to a smiling face 😊

😦 – This is done by typing colon (:), hyphen (-) and open bracket ( together. It automatically change to a sad face😡

ARROWS

⬅ – Do these by pressing <== or <– It will change to that arrow

Type ==> or –>, it will automatically change to ➡

Type <==> or <–> it will automatically change to opposite arrow

More…

Type (c) it will automatically change to ©

Press Ctrl + comma (,) follow by c, it will change to ç

Press Ctrl +shift + & follow by s, it will change to ß

Press Ctrl + shift + & follow by a or A, it will change to æ or Æ

Press Ctrl + shift + & follow by o or O, it will change to œ or Œ

This has been tested and it worked, it should work for you too

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Microsoft Office Word shortcuts you should know


In this blog, I will highlight some Computer shortcuts and tricks you have to know on Microsoft Office Word. This will make typing easier for Computer operators

Read on, I hope it should be useful 🎯 for you

Control + A: To highlight/select all texts in the document

Control + B: To bold a text

Control + C: To copy selected texts

Control + D: To double a shape or to open Font, Character Spacing dialogue box

Control + E: To align text to the center of the page

Control + F: Find and replace, as it name have said it all. The command is used to Find a written text by just typing the text needed for replacement in the box provided.

Control + G: The command, Go to, is to quickly move to a page by just typing the page number

Control I: To italize text whereby texts will be in a slanted “/” form

Control + J: To align text in a Justify form where the sides of the all the written text column are straight (parallel) to each other

Control + K: This command can be use to insert hyperlink to a page

Control + L: The default one; to align text to the left side of the page

Control + M: This command is used to completely move a text from one margin to the other

Control + N: To open a new Microsoft Word document

Control + O: To open Microsoft Word Documents box

Control + P: To open print document(s) dialogue box

Control + R: To align text to the right side of the page

Control + S: To save document

Control + U: To underline a text

Control + V: To paste a copied item (texts, image, etc)

Control + W: To switch open document tabs of Microsoft Office Word

Control + X: To cut an item

Control + Y: To Redo Indent item

Control + Z: This command is useful to to undo Paragraph Alignment

Microsoft Office Word Tricks

Control + Arrow keys: To quickly move cursor to the beginning of a word using the command Ctrl + left arrow(⬅) or to the end of a word using Ctrl + right arrow(➡)

Control + Delete/Backspace: To quickly erase a bunch of texts from the left to the right, use the command: Ctrl + Delete key or from to quickly erase texts from right to the left use the command: Ctrl + Backspace key

Control + Shift + Arrow key: To quickly highlight/select a bunch of text from the right side to the left side use Ctrl + Left arrow or from the left side to the right side use Ctrl + Right arrow

Control + ]: To grow/enlarge font size

Control + [: To shrink/decrease font size

Control + ): To enable or disable double line spacing

Shift + Insert: Alternative for Control + V; to paste copied text

F1: To open Microsoft Office word offline help

Control + F2: To preview a page

Shift + F3: To change text case (lowercase, UPPERCASE or Sentence Case)

Alt + F4: To close Microsoft Word document

Shift + F7: To open Spelling grammar check box

Control + Shift + =: To enable Superscript

Control + =: To enable Subscript

Alt + =: To view Equation tools

Control + Enter: To quickly move cursor to the next page

Control + F12: To re-save a document with a new name

Try this Shortcuts and Tricks, it’s all fun and useful

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