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Commands Close at Hand

Apart from the key combinations in Word's toolbar menus, the app's keyboard shortcuts are hard to find. That is, unless you use its built-in macro to list them. Select Tools,Macro,Macros (or press <Alt>-<F8>) to open the Macros dialog box. Click the 'Macros in' drop-down menu and select Word commands. Type lis and press the <Down Arrow> to choose ListCommands, and then press <Enter>. You can open a document that shows all of the keyboard commands in Word, or just the ones for the current menu and keyboard settings. Pick the option you want and click OK. Then either save the document or print a copy for reference (note that the 'All Word commands' option runs about 19 pages long).

Former PC World senior editor Michael S. Lasky is a freelance writer in San Francisco.