As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using keyboard shortcuts--especially in Microsoft Word. But there are some program functions, like Word Count, that don't have shortcuts ...

Enabling shortcut keys in ScreenTips in Word is one great way of learning Word's shortcut keys. Read the article for learning to enable Shortcut Keys in ScreenTips.

Did you know that just about any command (e.g., clear formatting or insert a copyright symbol) in Word can be assigned your own custom keyboard shortcut? If you didn't know, here's how to use this ...

Learn how to create a keyboard shortcut for Emoji in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and other Office apps on Windows 11/10.

How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts for Special Characters in Windows 10 Your Windows mobile device doesn't have a numeric keypad, so how do you type characters like em dashes or bullets without having ...

In Word 2007, press Insert on the Ribbon and then click on Symbol, More Symbols. In the Subset dropdown box, go to Currency Symbols, click on the symbol of your choice and click on Shortcut Key to ...

Then right-click on the shortcut, go to Properties, and add a space and /mfile1 after the path in the Target field. You should rename the shortcut to reflect it'll open your last used document.

In Microsoft Word, I like to make shortcuts that start with an asterisk (like *p for my phone number, for example), but the asterisk is hard to get to on the iPhone.