Keyboard shortcuts are great, as they really help to speed up your proofreading and editing. By avoiding the need to take your hands away from the keyboard, you’ll save time.
It’s best to adopt one keyboard shortcut at a time; choose those that you know will be useful to you so that you build up muscle memory quickly.
We have assumed that you are already aware of the well-known shortcuts, such as those for undo/redo, find/find and replace, and copy/paste. If you need a refresh, here’s a list of the most common keyboard shortcuts for PC and Mac.
MS Word Shortcuts
Toggle Capitalized / lowercase / ALL CAPS | Shift + F3 | Cmd + Shift + A |
Insert a comment | Ctrl + Alt + M | Cmd + Option + A |
Delete the next letter | Delete | Fn + Backspace |
Keyboard Shortcuts for Chrome
Function | Windows | |
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Open a new tab in the window | Ctrl + T | |
Jump to tabs 1–8 | Ctrl + 1–8 | |
Jump to far-right tab | Ctrl + 9 | |
Jump to next tab | Ctrl + Tab | |
Close tab | Ctrl + W | |
Close window | Alt + F4 | |
Print/Save as PDF | Ctrl + P | |
Reload page | Ctrl + R | |
Zoom in/out | Ctrl + + or - | |
Open link in a new tab | ||
Open link in a new tab and go to that tab | Ctrl + Shift + Mouse-click link | |
Switch between Chrome profiles | Ctrl + Tab | |
General Keyboard Shortcuts
Function | Windows | |
---|---|---|
Screenshot (whole screen) | Ctrl + Print screen | |
Screenshot (partial screen/select item) | Windows key + Shift + S | |
Add a hyperlink to text/modify hyperlink | Ctrl + K |