Every MS WORD Keyboard Shortcut Ever: CTRL+F
In this series of videos, I plan to go through every keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Word. It's a tall order; there are nearly 600 potential keyboard combinations, and some of these are really obscure. However, there are also some absolute gems, and some that I now use every day (now that I know about them). I look forward to sharing them with you.
Today, we look at Ctrl-F
Ctrl-F opens up the navigation task pane. Historically, the "f" stands for "find," and that's what this pane primarily does. Enter text in the search box, hit return (or click on the magnifying glass icon), and we find all instances of that term in the document.
The navigation task pane does a lot of cool things, but I'll save them for another video. I'll just show you one trick.
If we highlight some text and then hit Ctrl-F, it pre-enters that text for us in the search box. All we have to do is hit enter to actually perform the search.
Actually, MS Word 2016 is not the only program that uses Ctrl-F for "find." It's an old keystroke convention that dates from the early days of computing and works in web browsers like Chrome and Edge and PDF readers like Adobe Acrobat.
I hope you found this tip helpful. If you'd like to learn about even more keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word, subscribe to my channel.
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