Simple Productivity Tips in Microsoft WORD
Microsoft Word is one of the widely used software for PC today. With this software, you could write anything you like, save it, edit it, or delete it. Microsoft Word is really useful to create documents fast and it’s also easy to use and print. Microsoft Word also beat down all of the office program competitors these past several years. Also, most of the PC and laptop that available today adopted the Microsoft operating system that already has Microsoft Word installed in it, and thus increasing the Microsoft Word users.
When using Microsoft Word there are several shortcuts and tips that you can do to make your document writing faster. Microsoft Word also designed to adapt for any changes you made during typing. In short, you could type all the paragraphs, and format it later. It’s proven to be easier to do so than typing and stop to format it.
Here are 5 Top Tips that you could apply to your daily use of Microsoft Word and increase your productivity , no more grumpy when facing it :
1. Fixing Caps Lock Disaster
We usually tend to focus on typing something without looking at our monitor. It’s a good thing to increase your productivity. But, you’ll soon realize that disasters already happen when you’re on your 5th paragraphs. All words in the paragraphs are capitalized! It’s impossible to delete the paragraphs and rewrite it again without breaking someone’s neck. What you could do is blocked the text that you want to change the capitalization, choose “Format” from the toolbar, and then pick “Change Case”. You could see several options to fix your errors. Doing it this way will surely save you lots of time.
2. Fast Changing For Capitals
Sometimes we need to change the capitals fast without doing some format and spend our time playing with the toolbars. If you want to set upper case for the words or paragraphs that you intend to, highlight it and press Ctrl+Shift+A. Press and hold the first two button first, and then press the last button. You could change the text into smaller capitals by pressing Ctrl+Shift+K. The same rules apply.
3. Switch between Document Pages Fast
These tips will help you to switch between several pages in the same document:
- Ctrl+Alt+Page Up: Switch to previous page
- Ctrl+Alt+Page Down: Switch to the next page
- Ctrl+Home: Showing top of your document
- Ctrl+Alt+End: Showing end of your document
4. Page Breaks
You could insert page breaks quickly and easily by pressing the Ctrl+Enter button. This is very useful if you have lots of pages that you want to edit faster.
5. Finding the Last Changing
We often forget where the last time we do our changes is. For novelist, this could be troublesome because it’ll need lots of time to get back from the beginning just to continue the last changes. Do this by pressing Shift+F5. You could spot the latest place that you’ve changed.
Those are 5 Quick Tips that you could add to your daily typing routine using Microsoft Word. Use it generously, and save your time from switching back and forth between pages or drowning in the Microsoft Word toolbars.






