Creative Ideas - Keyboard Shortcuts

Quick reference

• 00:04 As you get better and faster at using Publisher,
• 00:07 it is a good idea to begin to learn the keyboard shortcuts that are available.
• 00:11 I'm gonna go ahead and I've got the Trader News newsletter open, so
• 00:15 I can work with this paragraph of text right here.
• 00:17 And please keep in mind a double-click on a word will select a word.
• 00:20 Which, of course, then brings up the minibar and
• 00:23 puts most of your font formatting tools right there where you need it.
• 00:27 A triple-click on a paragraph or any word will select the entire paragraph.
• 00:32 And so, we'll go ahead and start with that.
• 00:34 I'm gonna go ahead and hit the Ctlr+B, it is highlighted.
• 00:38 So Ctrl+B on my keyboard will make all my fonts bold.
• 00:42 I will Ctrl+Z as in zebra, Ctrl+Z will undo that formatting.
• 00:48 And so now I'll triple click again and this time I'm gonna Ctrl+U for
• 00:51 underline and you can see what happened right there.
• 00:53 Ctrl+Z will undo that.
• 00:55 Ctrl+I for italicize and it simply puts a slant on all my letters.
• 00:59 Ctrl+Z will undo that.
• 01:01 Now superscript.
• 01:02 And I'll just work with one word here.
• 01:04 I'll work with the word newsletter.
• 01:06 So superscript is Ctrl+Shift and the equal sign.
• 01:10 And what it does, it takes that word and puts it above the line of text.
• 01:16 Ctrl+Z to undo that.
• 01:17 Now, subscript, we'll put this below the text.
• 01:19 So simply, Ctrl+= will send that below the text.
• 01:22 If you're in the science field or chemistry field,
• 01:25 you will want to use superscript and subscript.
• 01:27 How about for small caps?
• 01:29 I want this Advantages to be small caps.
• 01:33 I will hit Ctrl+Shift+K, and for some reason it's not working.
• 01:37 So if it ever doesn't work, I can still go to my home ribbon,
• 01:41 come right over here to my capitalizations and hit small caps.
• 01:44 So instead of doing uppercase lowercase,
• 01:48 all of it is small caps, so it's kind of a cool feature.
• 01:51 It looks very great in headlines.
• 01:54 Ctrl+Spacebar will remove all formats from highlighted text.
• 01:58 So I'm just gonna highlight this text and press Ctrl+Spacebar, and
• 02:02 it just takes it right back to the base-level, what it was before I started.
• 02:07 Okay, let's see, to open up the font menu,
• 02:09 if I want to go a little deeper into fonts, Ctrl+Shift+F or Ctrl+Shift+P
• 02:15 will open up into all the details of all the font styles I can change.
• 02:20 Instead of just guessing what's available on my keyboard or on the minibar,
• 02:24 here's everything that's available.
• 02:26 And again, two ways to get that.
• 02:27 Ctrl+Shift+F, or Ctrl+Shift+P.
• 02:30 Now, one of my favorite things is the Ctrl+>.
• 02:34 So I'll just work with one word.
• 02:36 Ctrl+Shift+> than allows me to tap, tap, tap, tap and
• 02:41 make that word larger or Ctrl+Shift+< until it gets smaller.
• 02:46 So then I'm not guessing at what size I want to make it, like up here.
• 02:51 I'm actually just watching it get larger and
• 02:53 smaller by tapping the Ctrl+Shift greater, or the Ctrl+Shift less than to decrease.
• 02:59 Then we have find/replace.
• 03:01 Ctrl+F is a universal for find a word, but Ctrl+H allows you to find/replace.
• 03:07 So I'm gonna find the newsletter, the word newsletter.
• 03:11 So let me scroll down so we can see my entire thing here.
• 03:13 So Ctrl+F takes me into find mode, and I've got newsletter right there, and
• 03:18 I can hit Find Next, Find Next, Find Next.
• 03:20 I'm just gonna find each variation or every word newsletter,
• 03:24 but that's fine if I'm just looking for the word, but what if I wanna replace it?
• 03:29 Now I can click Replace right here, or
• 03:31 maybe I go in knowing I'm going to replace it.
• 03:33 So I could hit, let me close this to show you, I can hit Ctrl+H.
• 03:37 That will bring me right into Find and Replace.
• 03:40 Okay, so I'm gonna find newsletter, and I'm going to replace it with flyer.
• 03:46 And now I can just hit Replace All and it's going to find all of them.
• 03:50 It's going to back through it, find them all, and replace them all.
• 03:54 So here I have flyer, here I have flyer, here I have flyer, here I have flyer.
• 03:59 So it does a lot of work for you.
• 04:01 And so anyway, these are great features for
• 04:03 productivity and efficiency tips as you get better and better using Publisher.
• 04:08 Thank you.

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