Microsoft Word Tip: Display Available Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft Word allows easy access to many of its features through keyboard shortcuts. For example, is used to make regular text bold and vice-versa. In addition, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to styles, macros and more.

However, it is not easy to remember all the shortcuts.

Microsoft Word provides a macro—named ListCommands—that generates a document with the keyboard shortcuts that are currently in use. You can print this document and refer to it as and when required.

To generate a document that lists the keyboard shortcuts:

1. Click the Developer tab.
   To read how to enable the Developer tab in Microsoft Word, click here.
2. Click Macros.The Macros dialog box is displayed.
3. From the Macros in list, select Word commands.
4. From the displayed list of macros, select ListCommands.
5. Click Run.
   The List Commands dialog box is displayed.
6. Select the option Current keyboard settings.
7. Click OK.
   Microsoft Word generates a Word document that displays an alphabetically sorted list of all commands that have an associated keyboard shortcut and the shortcut. 
8. Print the document.

Shown below is the video of the process.


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