Just what you need, a dozen more keystroke combinations to try to remember. You can even apply a hanging indent by pressing Ctrl+T or remove it by pressing Shift+Ctrl+T. Allen Wyatt's WordTips site provides a great list of keyboard shortcuts for altering a paragraph's spacing (Ctrl+1 for single space, Ctrl+2 for double space), alignment (Ctrl+L aligns left, Ctrl+R right, Ctrl+E centered, Ctrl+J justified), and indents (Ctrl+M one tab space, Shift+Ctrl+M minus one tab space). Most of us rely on a mouse to make format changes in Word, but we can reformat Word docs just as easily using some of the program's more obscure keyboard shortcuts.īack in 2008, I described how to copy and paste only a paragraph's formatting, not its text. This is especially true in organizations attempting to apply singular style conventions. Whenever two or more people work on the same Microsoft Word document, there are bound to be formatting conflicts.
