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You know in Word how you can put an asterix before and after a word and the word will change into bold - well, does anyone know if there are other shortcuts like this, eg for italics or underline? I can't find the answer any where else, so I am hoping that H2G2ers will help me out.

Thanks very much
Bronners

underscores _ should do underline and / should do italics. I can't confirm if this does apply to Microsoft Word, but thats the convention.

-- DoctorMO --

Thanks for writting back DrMO.
I just tested your suggestions in Word, and the underscores turn words into italics and the / doesn't work at all!
I will just have to keep on questing for this knowledge!
Drat Microsoft for not obeying conventions...

Bronners

Strangely, in Microsoft Word, underscores before and after the word converts it into italics. Slashes do nothing.

Holding down Ctrl and Alt and then typing a, e, i, o or u will give you a rising accent over the letters: á é í ó ú

The automatic spelling correction in Word (adn --> and) also does a few handy things like convert (C) to a copyright symbol.

hmm, very odd. try things like -=+|%&# and see what they do.

-- DoctorMO --

If you type $*£%, does the word 'f**k' appear on your screen?

(Apologies Mods, but this post wouldn't be funny if I'd censored it )

B

I think it works the other way round B, the work infringes upon the MS ethic. just like the words compleat and debuging.

-- DoctorMO --

You can set up the spelling corrector to do that if it tickles your fancy. A friend of mine set up Word on his wife's computer to change every occurrence of the word 'the' to 'bastard' as she typed. Since she is a touch typist, it was quite some time before she noticed.

Back on subject

Try pressing
ctrl U for underline
ctrl I for italics
ctrl G for Bold

(when you've finished the phrase you're typing just use the same key functions to turn the feature off again)

Surely ctrl+B is Bold.

B

Well spotted, Master G!

yup I thought that...

Ctrl Z to undo (my favourite)
Ctrl X to cut
Ctrl C to copy
Ctrl V to paste
Ctrl A to select All
Ctrl S to save
Ctrl P to print

Ctrl Q to run my copy and past macro in excel
Ctrl W to run my chart re-assignment macro in excel

cant think of any more....

My favourite, because I do a lot of newsletters and stuff which needs to fit exactly onto a number of pages:

Ctrl+[ - Font size down 1
Ctrl+] - Font size up 1

B

alt + ctrl + . will give you ...

Ctrl + Esc brings up the start menu and Alt + Tab will cycle between windows....

Alt+F4 will shut down a program...other than that I never use the function keys that era of computing just passed me by

I also find Ctrl + Shift + + for superscript and Ctrl + Shift + = for subscript very useful!

I find [alt]+#Char to be very useful.

-- DoctorMO --

many Thanks to everyone that's answered my question. With knowledge of these shoertcuts I can nip through all my work and leave early. (In an ideal world that would happen, in my world it will just result in more work!)

Bronners

"Surely ctrl+B is Bold"


Well spotted - or at least it might be if you're not running a French computer

Bold = Gras - hence the Ctrl G in French My excuse and I'm sticking to it

I my world it means I can post more and pretend I'm working.

-- DoctorMO --