MS Word Goodies

Shortcuts

  • Ctrl + Alt + (+) – Assign short cut to any button in the interface. Allows you to very easily build a macro and assign it a shortcut.
  • Shift + Alt + End – Select current table cell.
  • Shift + Alt + Home – Select all table cells starting from the current cell all the way up to the first one.
  • Shift + Alt + UP/DOWN – Move current table row up or down respectively.
  • Ctrl + Shift + Home/End – Select all table rows from the current row up to the first or last table row respectively.
  • Ctrl + Space – Remove formatting. You must know how annoying it is to paste content copied from a website and it comes with its own styling and formatting. This shortcut will remove any web content formatting including links
  • Ctrl + Alt + V – Paste special. Allows you to remove formatting too. It is very powerful but is a bit less efficient as it requires several mouse clicks to choose what formatting is required.

There is a way of pasting content copied from any with formatting removed. See this helpful article
and this one is even better.

Firebug Inspect shortcut fix

I always had an issue with Firebug’s inspector toggle shortcut (Shift+Ctrl+C). It never worked for me. I recently did quite a bit of googling, which revealed that a few people had the same issue, all remedies they suggested did not work for me.

Eventually I went into Tools > Firebug > Customize Shortcuts, then changed Toggle Inspecting value to something else, closed the window, then repeated procedure but on the last step I reset Toggle Inspecting back to original value (there is a button for it). And gues what!!! It started working!

P.S. as a result of this research I found a great shortcut management extension Keyconfig