Keyboard Shortcuts For Word

For users who do not have specialized keyboards, letters with accent marks may only be created using shortcut keys or through the menu bar.

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Keyboard shortcuts can save you a lot of time, so here's a guide to the most useful keyboard shortcuts in Word you should start using today. Check out the products mentioned in this article. List of keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word Document shortcuts. These shortcuts are those that help you open, close, save and print your document. Some of these shortcuts will not complete the action for you, but instead open an action box to allow you to make some final decisions before pressing enter. For example, Print shortcut – this. Open Word File Options Customize Ribbon Down below you have Keyboard Shortcuts: Customize Reset All (This will reset all your existing shortcuts and even custom made ones) Unforunately, the Reset doesn't help. I have new laptop and newly installed MS Office. No leftovers, add-inns etc. All shortcut keys are based on the U.S. Keyboard layout. Keys on other layouts may not correspond exactly to the keys on a U.S. For keyboard shortcuts in which you press two or more keys together, the keys to press are separated by a plus sign, like this: SHIFT+F10. Open Microsoft Word. Click on Customize Ribbon. (Right-click on the ribbon in Word and select the Customize the Ribbon option.) In the Customize the Ribbon and keyboard shortcuts.

Inserting accented letters with the menu bar or Ribbon

  1. Open Microsoft Word.
  2. Select the Insert tab on the Ribbon or click Insert in the menu bar.
  3. On the Insert tab or the Insert drop-down, select the Symbol option.
  4. Select the desired accented character or symbol from the list of symbols. You can scroll through the entire list or select from the Subset drop-down list to view a specific type of symbols.
Note

In Word 2003 and earlier versions, you can click the More Symbols option to see a larger list of available symbols to insert.

  1. After selecting the desired accented letter or symbol, click the Insert button.
Tip

If you insert an accented character using the steps above, once a character is inserted, you can copy that character and paste it anywhere else in the document.

Use keyboard shortcuts

Microsoft Word users can also utilize the following combinations of keys to add accent marks to their letters. For example, to get the à character, you'd press and hold the Ctrl key, and press the ` key (the tilde key). Then, release both keys and quickly press the A key.

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You must press the letter key quickly after releasing the shortcut keys. Otherwise, the non-accented letter is created.

Tip

To get uppercase accent letters, turn on Caps Lockbefore using the shortcut keys. Alternatively, after pressing the shortcut keys together, release all but the Shift key, then press the desired letter to create an uppercase accent letter. The Shift key option only works for those shortcuts utilizing the Shift key, as listed below.

Desired SymbolShortcut Key Combination
à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, Ì, Ò, ÙCtrl+` (accent grave), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, ý, Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, ÝCtrl+' (apostrophe), the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û, Â, Ê, Î, Ô, ÛCtrl+Shift+^ (caret), the letter
ã, ñ, õ, Ã, Ñ, ÕCtrl+Shift+~ (tilde), the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ, Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, ŸCtrl+Shift+: (colon), the letter
å, ÅCtrl+Shift+@ (At), a or A
æ, ÆCtrl+Shift+& (ampersand), a or A
œ, ŒCtrl+Shift+& (ampersand), o or O
ç, ÇCtrl+, (comma), c or C
ð, ÐCtrl+' (apostrophe), d or D
ø, ØCtrl+/, o or O
¿Alt+Ctrl+Shift+?
¡Alt+Ctrl+Shift+!
ßCtrl+Shift+&, s

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Additional information

  • See the accent mark definition for further information and related links.

If you are writing any technical or mathematical content in Microsoft Word, then it is very much likely that it contains Greek alphabets or Greek letters. They are widely used in fields of science and engineering to demote various constants, values and phenomenon / particle.

Greek Alphabets

Greek alphabet has both capital and small versions. All the Greek alphabets finds it use in science and mathematics. However, unlike Latin based script that used 26 letters, Greek only has 24 letters. For a complete list of upper and lower case Greek alphabet visit blog.

Microsoft Word shortcut for Greek Alphabet

Keyboard Shortcuts For Word 2007

There are many ways to type Greek alphabet in Microsoft Word. Novice users use the Graphical User Interface (GUI) method to insert Greek Alphabets. It involves navigating Insert Tab and selecting desired Greek symbol from Symbols. However, this method is cumbersome and inefficient as it takes multiple click.

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LaTeX type shortcut for Greek Alphabets in Ms Word

Many users prefer LaTeXtype shortcut for tying Greek Alphabets. However, very few Microsoft Word users know that similar shortcut exists in Ms Word too. Table below lists Ms Word shortcut for Greek Alphabets.

Ms Word Alt code for Greek Alphabets

Keyboard Shortcuts For Word 365

You can quickly get Greek letter using Alt shortcut. Press Alt key and following 3 digit number for Greek alphabet before releasing Alt key.

Name Greek Alphabet Equation Editor Shortcut Alt Code Shortcut
AlphaαalphaAlt + 945
BetaβbetaAlt + 946
GammaγgammaAlt + 947
DeltaδdeltaAlt + 948
EpsilonεepsilonAlt + 949
ZetaζzetaAlt + 950
EtaηetaAlt + 951
ThetaθthetaAlt + 952
IotaιiotaAlt + 953
KappaκkappaAlt + 954
LambdaλlambdaAlt + 955
MuμmuAlt + 956
NuνnuAlt + 957
XiξxiAlt + 958
OmicornoomicornAlt + 959
PiπpiAlt + 960
RhoρrhoAlt + 961
SigmaσsigmaAlt + 963
TauτtauAlt + 964
UpsilonυupsilonAlt + 965
PhiφphiAlt + 966
ChiχchiAlt + 967
PsiψpsiAlt + 968
OmegaωomegaAlt + 969

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Name [latexpage] Greek Alphabet Equation Editor Shortcut Alt Code Shortcut
AlphaAAlphaALT + 913
BetaBBetaALT + 914
GammaGammaAlt + 915
DeltaDeltaAlt + 916
EpsilonEEpsilonAlt + 917
ZetaZZetaAlt + 918
EtaHEtaAlt + 919
ThetaThetaAlt + 920
IotaIIotaAlt + 921
KappaKKappaAlt + 922
LambdaLambdaAlt + 923
MuMMuAlt + 924
NuNNuAlt + 925
XiXiAlt + 926
OmicornOOAlt + 927
PiPiAlt + 928
RhoPRhoAlt + 929
SigmaSigmaAlt + 931
TauTTauAlt + 932
UpsilonUpsilonAlt + 933
PhiPhiAlt + 934
ChiXChiAlt + 935
PsiPsiAlt + 936
OmegaOmegaAlt + 937

Conclusion

LaTeX way of typing Greek alphabet is the fastest and easiest way. Study shows that it can use save up to 80% of equation writing time. Another time saving method is Alt method but you need to remember unique 3 digit number for each Greek letter.