Microsoft Word In 30 Minutes (Second Edition): Make a bigger impact with your documents and master the writing, formatting, and collaboration tools in Word 2019 and Word Online Angela Rose 4.0 out of 5 stars 40. This tutorial shows how to insert nonbreaking spaces in Microsoft Word using the Symbol dialog box method and the keyboard shortcut method. Before we start the tutorial, we’ll briefly define nonbreaking spaces and see what they look like compared to regular spaces. Microsoft Office Home and Student 2019 provides classic Office apps and email for families and students who want to install them on one Mac or Windows 10 PC for use at home or school. Classic versions of Office apps include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Word is one of the most used computer programs on the planet. Helping you to compose text is one of the things that computers do well, but that doesn’t make the text-writing chore easier or imply that using Word 2019 is simple enough that you don’t need help. So, enjoy this Cheat Sheet.
Get to Know the Word 2019 Screen
- Word 2019 Tricks to Remember. Here’s a short list of the most helpful Microsoft Word 2019 tricks that may come in handy for your word-processing needs. Keep these suggestions in mind when you compose a new document: Press Ctrl+Enter to start a new page. This key combination inserts a hard page break, which forces a new page automatically.
- How to Update Microsoft Word on PC or Mac. This wikiHow teaches you how to install Microsoft Word updates on your Windows or macOS computer. Click the button. It's usually at the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Behold Word 2019’s screen. You see the promise of a new document and a bewildering number of buttons and gizmos. Here are the important elements that you will most likely need to remember:
The Word 2019 Ribbon
Microsoft Word 2019’s Ribbon presents tabs that you can click to reveal groups of helpful icons. These icons represent command buttons, input boxes, and menus that are helpful when navigating through a Word document.
Word 2019 Keyboard Command Roundup
Word 2019 has many keyboard commands to offer you. Whether you use a computer with a honking 105-key keyboard or a tablet with no keyboard, word processing remains a keyboard-bound activity. The following tables show how to access Microsoft Word 2019’s commands and functions.
Here are all of the options you can utilize for cursor movement.
Pressing This Key | Moves the Insertion Pointer . . . |
↑ | Up one line of text |
↓ | Down one line of text |
← | Left to the next character |
→ | Right to the next character |
Ctrl+↑ | Up one paragraph |
Ctrl+↓ | Down one paragraph |
Ctrl+← | Left one word |
Ctrl+→ | Right one word |
PgUp | Up one screen |
PgDn | Down one screen |
Home | To start of current line |
End | To end of current line |
Ctrl+Home | To top of document |
Ctrl+End | To bottom of document. |
Here are some basic editing commands that are always helpful when word processing.
Copy | Ctrl+C |
Cut | Ctrl+X |
Paste | Ctrl+V |
Undo | Ctrl+Z |
Check out these useful commands when you need to do some text formatting.
Bold | Ctrl+B |
Italic | Ctrl+I |
Double underline | Ctrl+Shift+D |
Word underline | Ctrl+Shift+W |
Small caps | Ctrl+Shift+K |
Superscript | Ctrl+Shift++ |
Subscript | Ctrl+= |
Clear formatting | Ctrl+spacebar |
Grow font | Ctrl+Shift+> |
Shrink font | Ctrl+Shift+< |
ALL CAPS | Ctrl+Shift+A |
Font dialog box | Ctrl+D |
Here are some commands that will help simplify paragraph formatting.
Center text | Ctrl+E |
Left-align | Ctrl+L |
Right-align | Ctrl+R |
One-line spacing | Ctrl+1 |
1-1/2-line spacing | Ctrl+5 |
Two-line spacing | Ctrl+2 |
Justify | Ctrl+J |
Indent | Ctrl+M |
Unindent | Ctrl+Shift+M |
Hanging indent | Ctrl+T |
Un-hang indent | Ctrl+Shift+T |
And just for fun, here are some popular Word keyboard shortcuts.
Help | F1 |
Cancel | Escape |
Go back | Shift+F5 |
New document | Ctrl+N |
Open screen | Ctrl+O |
Ctrl+P | |
Close document | Ctrl+W |
Quick save | Ctrl+S |
Repeat | Ctrl+Y |
Find | Ctrl+F |
Find and replace | Ctrl+H |
Insert hard page break | Ctrl+Enter |
Haven’t found what you’re looking for? Check out these uncommon (but useful) Word keyboard shortcuts.
Go to | F5 |
Show/hide nonprinting characters | Ctrl+Shift+8 |
File screen | Alt+F |
Styles task pane | Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S |
Word count | Ctrl+Shift+G |
Symbol font | Ctrl+Shift+Q |
Print Layout view | Ctrl+Alt+P |
Draft (normal) mode | Ctrl+Alt+N |
Outline mode | Ctrl+Alt+O |
Split window | Alt+Ctrl+S |
Track revisions | Alt+Shift+E |
And finally, here are some commands that insert something
Today’s date | Alt+Shift+D |
Current time | Alt+Shift+T |
Paste special | Alt+Ctrl+V |
Footnote | Alt+Ctrl+F |
Endnote | Alt+Ctrl+D |
Comment | Ctrl+Alt+M |
Word 2019’s Special-Character Keyboard Shortcuts
Some key combinations insert characters into your Word 2019 document. If you find these characters useful in your day-to-day typing duties, you may want to consider using their keyboard shortcuts:
Symbol Name | Symbol | Keys to Press |
Euro | € | Ctrl+Alt+E |
Trademark | ™ | Ctrl+Alt+T |
Copyright | © | Ctrl+Alt+C |
Registered | ® | Ctrl+Alt+R |
En dash | – | Ctrl+minus key on the numeric keypad |
Em dash | -- | Ctrl+Alt+minus key on the numeric keypad |
Unbreakable space | Ctrl+Shift+space | |
Unbreakable hyphen | – | Ctrl+Shift+- (hyphen) |
Word 2019 Tricks to Remember
Here’s a short list of the most helpful Microsoft Word 2019 tricks that may come in handy for your word-processing needs. Keep these suggestions in mind when you compose a new document:
- Press Ctrl+Enter to start a new page. This key combination inserts a hard page break, which forces a new page automatically.
- Press Shift+Enter to insert a soft return. This keypress is useful for breaking a line of text, such as in a document title or an address.
- Use tabs to line up your text. Never use spaces for this task. One tab is all you need. If you’re inserting more than one tab, you need to reset the tab stops.
- Always use one tab between columns to line them up. Doing so will make editing the information easier.
- If you need to change the page formatting in the middle of your document, start a new section. Sections allow you to use multiple page-format attributes in a single document.
- Save your styles in a template! That way, you can use them for documents you create without having to rebuild all your styles over and over.
This tutorial shows how to insert nonbreaking spaces in Microsoft Word using the Symbol dialog box method and the keyboard shortcut method. Before we start the tutorial, we’ll briefly define nonbreaking spaces and see what they look like compared to regular spaces.
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The images below are from Word for Office 365, which is currently the same as Word 2019. However, the steps are the same for Word 2016 and are similar for Word 2013 and Word 2010.
What Are Nonbreaking Spaces?
Nonbreaking spaces are special characters that keep words or individual characters from separating at line breaks. Nonbreaking spaces are particularly useful between ellipsis points. However, you can use them between any words or characters that you want to stay together.
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In Microsoft Word, regular spaces are represented by a small, solid dot and nonbreaking spaces are represented by a slightly larger circle positioned higher than the regular-space dot.
To see these and other formatting symbols in your Word document, select the Show/Hide button in the Paragraph group of the Home tab. To hide the formatting symbols, reselect the Show/Hide button.
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Insert Nonbreaking Spaces in Microsoft Word Using the Symbol Dialog Box
1. Place your cursor where the nonbreaking space should be inserted. Alternately, if a regular space already appears where the nonbreaking space should be inserted, select the regular space, as shown in the image below.
2. Select the Insert tab.
Multitouch 1 1 0 – handful trackpad gestures using. 3. Select Symbols in the Symbols group.
4. Select More Symbols in the drop-down menu.
5. Select the Special Characters tab in the Symbol dialog box.
6. Select Nonbreaking Space from the Character menu.
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7. Select the Insert button to insert the nonbreaking space.
Pro Tip: You can move your cursor around the document and insert additional nonbreaking spaces or other special characters while the Symbol dialog box is open.
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8. Select the Close button to close the Symbol dialog box.
Insert Nonbreaking Spaces in Microsoft Word Using the Keyboard Shortcut
1. Place your cursor where the nonbreaking space should be inserted. Alternately, if a regular space already appears where the nonbreaking space should be inserted, select the regular space (see figure 1).
2. Select Ctrl + Shift + Space on your keyboard to insert the nonbreaking space.
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