Top 60 Best Microsoft Word Tips, Tricks, Secrets and Hacks

Think you know everything about Microsoft Word? Here are some hidden tricks and time-saving hacks you need to know about the popular word processor. Microsoft Word might be the world’s most widely used writing instrument. It’s certainly far more powerful than other popular tools like pencils and pens.

In this video, get to know the Top 60 Microsoft Word tips and tricks that will help any user work more efficiently.

How to Use These Tips

All the tips in this Video should work with any version of Office that you’re likely to be using, including the versions dated 2016, 2019, and 2021. Most but not all will work in 2013 and earlier versions.
Best 60 Word Tips and tricks
1. =rand(6,4) Random auto text
2. Alt select vertical highlight/rectangular selection
3. Ctrl + Click Sentence highlight
4. Tripple Click Select a paragraph
5. Autocorrect eg msw Microsoft Word (File options – proofing)
6. ctrl + space remove auto formatting
7. ctrl+backspace delete word by word
8. Pdf to word & Vice versa Open file
9. White space Double click to hide white space
10. Theme File account - Especially those working at night
11. Double click between paragraphs or middle of line Adds text as you type
12. Search / Tell me what you want to do Quickens the process or action
13. Quick Lines
Hyphen 3 times enter Horizontal line
Underscore thrice _ _ _+Ent Bold Line
===+Ent Double Line
### + Enter Triple Lines
*** Dotted Line
~~~ Wave Line
14. Shift + F5 Last edited location
15. Ctrl + shift + Make text bigger or smaller
16. Ctrl + K Hyperlink 🔗
17. Format painter Produces same formatting to text/paragraph
18. Shift + F3 Toggle cases
19. F2 next line Enter Ctrl+x /crtl+v
20. Remove underline checks File, options, proofing, hide Exceptions
21. Calculations in a table
22. Password protect
23. Winword.exe/mfile1 Opens most recent word file
24. Serial numbers in a table Select and put auto bullets/numbers
25. Clipboard access All the last copied items
26. Sorting Lists numbers or text or Date
27. Share and comment For collaboration
28. Pin documents File Pin 📍
29. Translate text / paragraph or document Review then translates
30. Table of Contents
31. Citations Add them and autocomplete
Reference and Bibliography
32. Navigation pane Have heading to enabe quick navigation
33. Focus mode Allows you to focus on the content not the user interface Plus background
34. Immersive Reader
35. Text to Speech / Read Aloud Customize quick access/ Reads text / paragraphs
36. Office Lense App that scans and converts photos into text and sends in word document
37. Draw Tab Drawings, highlight / ink to shape
38. Screenshot Insert screenshot – choose window or clip
39. Insert Online Video
40. Side by side view Under View tab, scroll like a book, Thumbnails instead of scrolling through a 30pages doc.
41. Inserting Icons
42. Text Wrap
43. Auto Save
44. Office Templates To ease work eg resumes and cover letters
45. Compresses word document size File option, advanced, image size and quality
46. +------+-------+-------+-----+ Creates a table
47. Convert numbers to words Eg {=2023\*cardtext} first press ctrl+F9 then update
48. Setting Default Font
49. Converting text to table Eg 20,30,40,50
50. Converting Table into Text Layout convert to text
51. Inserting equations Include New Equation and Ink Equation
52. Alt + Shift + D / Alt + Shift + T Current Date / Time (insert Tab)
53. Search/Research/ Smart Lookup
54. Shrink to One Page Add it to quick access tool bar
55. Remove Leading spaces First Apply bullets/Autonumbers… then remove bullets
56. Add-ins Eg QR4Office
57. Open and repair For files that are corrupt. It will try to open them
58. Split in to columns
59. Inserting File path
60. Page numbering
61. Ctrl+= /ctrl+shift+ Superscript and subscript
62. Auto Saving To reduce time of manual saving
63. Zoom In and Zoom Out

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