Add shortcuts to commands: The Quick Access Toolbar commands automatically have the shortcuts ALT+1, ALT+2., ALT+9 assigned to the first 9 commands in the toolbar.

Convenient access to most used commands: Using the Quick Access Toolbar for your commonly used commands saves a lot of time otherwise wasted swapping between ribbon tabs or navigating drop-down menus.

There are 4 key benefits to using the Quick Access Toolbar: The Quick Access Toolbar grants direct (quick) access to a set of desired commands in a toolbar that is always visible no matter which ribbon tab is selected. The Quick Access Toolbar is a command line that appears either above or below the main ribbon tabs in Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

What is Quick Access Toolbar and how can you use it? The Quick Access Toolbar is one such tweak, which lets you quickly access commonly used functions that may otherwise be tedious to find and use. With years of spending upwards of 50+ hours a week in Office, any tweaks to make life easier are more than welcome. With a background in management consulting, I have worked intensively in Microsoft Office. I hope you find this list of shortcuts useful and do feel free to ask us if you need any assistance or want to attend one of our courses.Back when I didn’t have Ampler for Excel, PowerPoint and Word, I used to be a huge advocate for using the Quick Access Toolbar, because you can customize the Quick Access Toolbar to your preference. Shortcuts for moving around easily / quickly in Word

So if you would like to find out more about using Word and getting the most from it, do have a look at attending one of our courses such as the Microsoft Word Office Users course. As Word has changed and developed over the years with plenty of new versions, some of these areas may be unfamiliar to you. Microsoft have produced an article but I have composed a list of the best and most useful ones that I have come across from working with word over the last 20 years. I have had several people in my Microsoft Word training classes asking if there is a good list of word shortcuts.

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