Basic Text Formatting
Principles of Typing Text into a Word Document
- To type a letter/digit/symbol, press the key on your computer's keyboard that corresponds to that symbol.
- Press the ENTER key (RETURN on Mac) to skip to the next line.
- Word-Wrap: Word continues longs sentences on next line automatically, so you don’t have to click ENTER when the I-beam reaches the right edge of the page.
Moving the I-Beam across the Document
You can move around the document with the keyboard!
- Left, Right, Up, and Down arrow keys
- Home and End keys
- Ctrl shortcuts (Ctrl + Home, Ctrl + Right, etc.)
These notes by Miriam Briskman are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 and based on sources.