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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Click the down arrow and choose Modify or right-click and select Modify to display the dialog box.
- Click on Format and select Shortcut Key from the menu and the Customize Keyboard dialog box will appear.
- 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.
- Click on Assign.
- Click Close.
- Click on OK to close teh Modify Style dialog box.
That’s all there is to it!