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I have covered using styles in previous blog posts, but did you know you could assign a shortcut key combination to your styles?  And why wouldn’t you want to do this??  After all, it does save you valuable time and keystrokes!

Follow the steps below to define a shortcut key combination for a style:

1. Display the task pane by first clicking on the Home tab of your Ribbon and then clicking the small icon in the lower right-hand corner of the Styles group. In earlier versions MS Word displays the Styles and Formatting task pane at the right-hand side of your screen.
2. In the list of styles, hover your mouse over the name of the style whosse shortcut key would would like to change and a drop-down arrow should appear to the right of the style name.
3. Click the down arrow and choose Modify or right-click and select Modify to display the dialog box.
4. Click on Format and select Shortcut Key from the menu and the Customize Keyboard dialog box will appear.
5. Click the key combination you would like to apply to your style. Any current assignments for that particular key combination appear just below what you just keyed in.
6. Click on Assign.
7. Click Close.
8. Click on OK to close teh Modify Style dialog box.

That’s all there is to it!