Keyboard Shortcuts for Inserting Special Characters
Applies to: Word 2007
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You can avoid reaching for the mouse if you are familiar with keyboard shortcuts. Here are some commonly-used keyboard combinations used to insert special symbols or formatting control characters into a document.
| Insert | Keyboard Shortcut |
An empty field |
CTRL+F9 |
A manual line break |
SHIFT+ENTER |
A manual page break |
CTRL+ENTER |
A column break |
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER |
An em dash |
ALT+CTRL+MINUS SIGN |
An en dash |
CTRL+MINUS SIGN |
An optional hyphen |
CTRL+HYPHEN |
A non-breaking hyphen |
CTRL+SHIFT+HYPHEN |
A non-breaking space |
CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR |
The copyright symbol |
ALT+CTRL+C |
The registered trademark symbol |
ALT+CTRL+R |
The trademark symbol |
ALT+CTRL+T |
An ellipsis |
ALT+CTRL+PERIOD |
A single opening quotation mark |
CTRL+ ‘ (single quotation mark), ‘ (single quotation mark) appears) |
A single closing quotation mark |
CTRL+ ’ (single quotation mark), ’ (single quotation mark) |
Double opening quotation marks |
CTRL+ “ (single quotation mark), SHIFT+ “ (single quotation mark) |
Double closing quotation marks |
CTRL+ ” (single quotation mark), SHIFT+ ” (single quotation mark) |
A Building Block entry |
F3 (after you type the first few characters of the Building Block entry name) |
Learn more keyboard shortcuts available in Microsoft Word 2002, in Microsoft Office Word 2003, and in Microsoft Office Word 2007.
