If you frequently print selected text in Word 2002 or Word 2003, you can eliminate having to bring up the Print menu for each copy you print. You simply create a macro and assign it to a keyboard ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. I once read about a shortcut for drawing a line in Microsoft Word with just a few keystrokes. Can you refresh my memory? A. There have been so many Microsoft Word shortcuts added over the years ...

If you often insert Emoji in a Word document or Outlook email, you might have to go through a lot of steps. Instead of doing such time-consuming tasks, you can create a keyboard shortcut for emoji in ...

To get rid of this time-consuming work, you can record a macro and create a shortcut button to implement multiple formats at once. Let us see how to do this. Record a Macro to create button to add ...

Q I’m beginning to handle international business, which means I need to be able to use foreign currency symbols in both Word and Excel. How do I create a shortcut for various symbols? In Excel, it’s a ...

Reformat text, apply bullets or a numbered list, hang-indent a paragraph, and make other formatting changes from via keystroke combinations. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

When you create a new shortcut in Windows, it annoyingly adds the word "Shortcut" to the end of the file. A very simple registry tweak can turn off this behavior. If you don't want to edit the ...

We all have a phrase, a number, or another string of text that we type over and over again: a lengthy street address, your office number, or any other common bit of data you wish would simply flow ...

Adding some key combinations to your shortcuts list lets you keep your hands on the keyboard and off your mouse. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...