 Ctrl+Scroll button on mouse: automatic zoom in and out.

 There is a paper size for legal documents under the Layout tab, if you click Size.
 Alt+Shift+D will automatically put in the date.
 Highlighting a word, and typing in its place will automatically delete what was written earlier.
 You could add a file in the browse tab to Quick Access if you drag a file to the center of two
files already in the Quick Access section.
 Whenever a document has “Compatibility Mode” in title, that suggests that it was created in
an older version of Word, than the one it is being currently opened in.
 Save As is accessed by pressing F12 as a shortcut.
 If you are sending your document to someone who has the old version of Word, up until the
2003 version, you would have to convert your file into a ‘doc’ instead of ‘docx’. This is done
by clicking on Save As, pressing the drop-down menu on Save As Type, and clicking ‘Word
97-2003 document’.
 Ctrl+Up/Down moves from one paragraph to another. If Pilcrows are added, it will move the
cursor to where the next Pilcrow is.
 Pressing the Home key would take you to the beginning of a line.
 The End key will take you to the end of a line.
 Ctrl+Home will take you to the beginning of the document.
 Ctrl+End will take you to the end of the document.
 You can select text by clicking on the margin, and dragging down to include more text.
 Shift+Up/Down will select text.
 Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down will select an entire paragraph.
 Where you want to change the font, size, colour together, of different headings separated by
paragraphs, or select them otherwise, you would have to go to the margin where the first
heading you want to change is, click, move to the next heading, and as you click on the side
of its margin, press Ctrl. Repeat with any other headings/lines you want to group in this
selection.
 You could indent on the right side of a paragraph by clicking the dialogue launcher in the
paragraph ribbon, and selecting the desired indention by writing or typing a value where it
says “Right”.
 Ctrl+N will open up a new document.
 Pressing the tab key on a bullet point will make it a sub-bullet point, and indent, and this can
continue with further sub points. It is the same with numbers and sub-numbers.
 Shift+Tab will make the sub-bullet point convert back to a main bullet point. Pressing the
enter key on a non-written sub-bullet point will also do the same thing. It is the same with
numbers and sub-numbers.
 You can Undo back to a number of steps in one action by clicking on the drop-down menu
next to the Undo button, and click on how far you want to go back.
 Instead of pressing Enter a number of times when you want certain text to show up on
another page, you could add a Page Break instead, so the text does not move further down
when you add something above.
 Page Breaks are made viewable by turning on Pilcrow, and can be deleted by tapping the
Delete button.
 The Ruler is made viewable on the newest version of Word by going to the View tab and
ticking the Ruler button.
 Where you want to print front and back, and need the “insider” margin (the part where a
page is bound) bigger to accommodate the binding itself, you need to customize the margins.
You would select “Mirror pages”, and increase the margin on the Inside ever so slightly than
the Outside.
 Ctrl+O would directly take you to Open a file.
 Number of Sections in a document are viewable by clicking right on the bottom-most bar,
and ticking Sections.
 Section Breaks are added automatically when certain text within a document is laid out into
columns, and become viewable by turning the Pilcrows on.
 You can add both a Section Break and a Page Break by going to the Layout tab, clicking the
drop-down menu on Breaks, and selecting Next Page.
 Unclicking Link To Previous in Header Settings, when on a page you would like to change the
header on from what was previously inserted would allow different pages to have different
headers. It is the same with Footers.
 You can also have both the Header and Footer show updated time and date every time you
open your document, by clicking Update Automatically in the Date and Time Section from
Header/Footer Settings.
 Clicking the Down or Up Key while in a Header or Footer will take you to and fro from
Header to Footer, or vice versa.
 You can save your customized Header or Footer by clicking in the margin on the left and
selecting either/or, then going into Header or Footer drop-down menu (depending upon the
selection), and clicking Save Selection to Header/Footer Gallery. Your creation will be
prioritized in the area where all Footers are shown, if you name the Footer, add a space bar
before the name you added, and change the Category from General to Built-in.
 You can access the words you added in your Dictionary, and delete them, by clicking on the
File tab, select Options, select Proofing, and then Custom Dictionaries, and clicking Edit
Word List.
 If you would like to use the Thesaurus on a word, you click in the middle of it, select
Thesaurus from the Review Tab, and it will give you the different meanings for the word, and
their synonyms. Right click on the synonym you want to use, and click Insert from the pop-up
tab.
 If you would like to have Word autocorrect a word you always misspell, you would have to
go to Proofing again via the Files Tab, click Autocorrect Options, and add it in the Replace
Text As You Type section.
 You could replace a word with another automatically by clicking Replace within the Home
Tab, Finding the word you want to replace, adding what you want to Replace it with, and
either Replace All, or Find Next, and Replace it in that one place. You can also select Match
options in finding the word, by clicking More.
 Where you want to create a template, you have to save it as a Word Template (.dotx) by
clicking Save As Type.
 Pressing Esc will open up a new blank document on Word, if another one is not already open.
 When writing things in columns, and making sure the contents of each column are aligned,
instead of simply pressing the enter key a number of times, the Tab key can be used in
conjunction with the Ruler to perfectly align the contents within these columns. You would
have to Press the L sign where the two rulers meet, so it makes an upside-down (T), which
stands for center alignment. You would have to select the content in the paragraphs you
want to align in the center, and click on the Ruler where you want them aligned. If you want
to align on the right, then click the upside-down (T) again, until it forms a backwards (L), and
 then click on the Ruler where you want content aligned exactly. When you go to the next
line in the column, and click Tab instead of Space, while you fill out the rows, the cursor will
automatically take you to a point where the content you write in the new line would align
with the content you had previously written in the line above.
 Three consecutive minus signs (---) will become a Border (top or bottom, depending on
where the text is) automatically upon pressing Enter. Three consecutive equal signs (===) will
make a double-lined Border.
 Dragging down the Tab-Stops from the Ruler will remove them. You could also
Remove/Clear/Clear All Tab Stops by clicking the dialogue box in the Paragraph ribbon on
the Home tab, and clicking on Tabs to access those settings.
 You could put in Tab Stops, a number of them and quicker at that, by clicking on Tabs, and
selecting the number of inches on the Ruler where you want it, what type of alignment you
want (left, right, center), and whether you want to add in a leader line. After putting in each
increment on the Ruler, you would have to Set it before moving on to the next.
 You can convert columns with tabs into a table, by clicking on the drop-down menu on Insert
Table in the Insert tab, and clicking Convert Text To Table, after selecting the text you want
to convert. You could also click on Autofit to Content in the Convert Text To Table menu to
make the table better fit your text.
 Click on Draw Table in the Layout section of a Table to use a pencil to split cells more easily.
 Select Split Cells, and then click on Distribute Rows in the Table Layout tab to make them
equal. You could do the same for columns by clicking on Distribute Columns.
 Pressing Tab would add a new row if you already were at the last cell before the table ends.
 You could merge cells in a table by erasing divisions through the Eraser on the Table Layout
section.
 Cells in a table can be summed up, counted, and even multiplied in word. All of this is done
through accessing the Formula section in the Table Layout tab. If you want to count above
the cell your cursor is in, you will write =Count (Above) as the formula, which is the same
with the Sum. If you want to multiply, you will have to open up the Formula section again
where you want the answer/product to be, and multiply the location of the two cells you
intend to multiply with an asterisk (*). Example: (=C4*D4). If, as a result of this multiplication,
or any other function, the number that you have used in your calculation of a sum has
changed, you would have to use the Sum Formula again to recalculate, or you can highlight
the total, and press the F9 key.
 You can also add an Excel sheet in Word, together with Excel tabs and ribbons, by clicking on
the drop-down menu on Table in the Insert tab, and choosing Excel Spreadsheet.
 To create your own Style of characters or paragraphs (which can also include a simple word
in one line), you would have to click the third arrow in the gallery (where the headings are),
and then click Create a Style. Name your style, and go on to Modify it. After you are done
customizing, click Okay. Styles for characters (chosen words) can also be created through the
same process, except that you would have to select Characters in Style Type, and if you want
to create a Style that works for both Characters and Paragraphs, choose the Linked Style
Type. When choosing a Style For Following Paragraph, choose Normal, so that when you
press the Enter key, the Style does not on. You could also select a particular Style from the
gallery, and select Format Painter in the Home tab to change text you click on to that Style.
Double Click the Format Painter to maintain the brush as you scroll down to other text.
 Headings can be accessed through the Navigation Bar, which is accessed through the View
tab. You can also change where one heading, and its contents are in the document to another
place, by switching them in the Navigation bar. Clicking Outline in the View tab will also do
the same thing.