#All keyboard commands for word 2010 software#

#All keyboard commands for word 2010 software#

Sometimes the hardest part of adding new features to software is getting people to stop using their clunky old workarounds. But as a general rule, the Control key on a PC functions in the same way as the Command key on a Mac (when it comes to keyboard shortcuts). It took about a week or reminding myself but now my mouse reflex is gone and I hit Ctrl-V Ctrl by reflex instead. And if it's not right, press Ctrl one more time and try another option. Or I can use the arrow keys to switch between them if I haven't memorised the keyboard shortcuts. What you do is use Ctrl-V the same as you always have, and then press Ctrl again to open the options popup and then press T for unformatted text (or whichever of the options I need) - M for merge formatting, U to paste it as a picture and so on. I learned that as a reflex so I'm sure I can replace it, especially as this one is less effort than moving the mouse. I was thinking about third-party utilities - and I was thinking about putting in a feature request for the next version of Office - and that made me think of checking Help (given that I know 80% of the feature requests the Office team get are for features that are already in Office).Īnd when I took a minute to look I was reminded that there's actually a much easier option built in to Office 2010 that works in all the apps and all I have to do is break one half of the hardwiring - moving the mouse to Paste Options. I could set a keyboard shortcut in Word to use Ctrl-Shift-V for pasting unformatted text in the first place, but you can't create keyboard shortcuts in other Office apps (it astonishes me that after all these years I still can't make keyboard shortcuts in Excel). There's a keyboard shortcut for everything in the ribbon but the keyboard shortcut of Alt-H-V-T is just too long-winded and assigning a keyboard shortcut to EditPasteOption pastes without any options at all. I added the Paste Options button to the Quick Access Toolbar so I can get it even if I'm not on the ribbon Home tab but I was having a problem remembering that I didn't want to Ctrl-V and then I had to move the mouse to the Paste Options button anyway. That means the keyboard shortcut doesn't do what I want without using the mouse as well, and that's slower than using the Paste Options button in the first place. In Word, I want to paste plain text into one kind of document and preserve the original formatting in another kind of document. Ctrl-V is literally hardwired into my brain, I think even though I nearly always choose the Paste Options button and change the way content has just pasted in - but not quite often enough to want to reset the default. Since I started using the touch-screen HP 2740p tablet, I've found myself tapping buttons in the Office ribbon to run commands - but sometimes keyboard shortcuts are just faster.