Work-accelerating function buttons

Today, let us start to home in on the idea of the most frequently used hotkeys in Microsoft Office. Before we start the introduction to them, I would like to tell a brief story of mine.

I had an experience of conducting a simple preliminary research in elementary school. For I and my classmates were all young kids, the teachers had made a brief list of the content so that we didn’t have to worry about of the structure of the final report. Feeling easy, we start to do some tricks in Microsoft Word for we were using it when doing the report. Out of curiosity, we’ve tried various button combination aiming to discover some novel functions, thus, we found many hotkeys and learned to use some interesting Unicode.

Now we’ll begin the introduction from the most basic but important ones:

Ctrl + C: copy

Ctrl + V: paste

Ctrl + X: cut

Ctrl + Z: undo

Ctrl + A: select all

Ctrl + Q: align text left (靠左對齊)

Ctrl + R: align text right (靠右對齊)

Ctrl + E: center text (置中)

Ctrl + B: boldface (粗體)

Ctrl+ I: italic (斜體)

Ctrl + +/=: subscript (下標)

Ctrl + Shift + +/=: superscript (上標)

Usually, the signs on the keys of the keyboard have their arranging logic. You can acquire the symbols on the upper left corner by pressing “Shift” and then press the target button. If you substitute the additional button with “Ctrl”, then you can get the lower left icon, at least in some specific input method.

At last, let me tell you some interesting trick done by Unicode. First, switch the input method to “新注音” or “新倉頡”, then press the button right under “esc”, the “~/`”. You may see a block popping out like this:

   

Now, you can type many interesting symbols applying the Unicode. There’re some examples below, to name just a few:

`U2605 ★

`U2606 ☆

`U2192 →

`U03BC μ

`U25B2 ▲

`U25B3 △

If you want to discover more of them to make good use of, you can look it up in “Insert – Symbols” in the toolbar on the top row:

The content encircled by the red frame is the hotkey of the symbol chosen. 

That's all for today's introduction. Thank you for watching!