Keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7’s WordPad
Most people begin computing by poking their way through menus, picking and choosing tasks as they stumble across them.
When you’ve worked with a program for awhile, you might prefer learning a few keyboard shortcuts: quick key combinations that perform tasks faster than you can click a menu. Windows 7 offers zillions of keyboard shortcuts; some are new, some have been around since the first version of Windows.
These keyboard shortcuts all work in Windows 7’s WordPad program:
| Ctrl+N | Create a new document |
| Ctrl+O | Open an existing document |
| Ctrl+S | Save changes to a document |
| F12 | Save the document as a new file |
| Ctrl+P | Print a document |
| Alt+F4 | Close WordPad |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo a change |
| Ctrl+Y | Redo a change |
| Ctrl+A | Select the entire document |
| Ctrl+X | Cut a selection |
| Ctrl+C | Copy a selection to the Clipboard |
| Ctrl+V | Paste a selection from the Clipboard |
| Ctrl+B | Make selected text bold |
| Ctrl+I | Italicize selected text |
| Ctrl+U | Underline selected text |
| Ctrl+= | Make selected text subscript |
| Ctrl+Shift+= | Make selected text superscript |
| Ctrl+L | Align text left |
| Ctrl+E | Align text center |
| Ctrl+R | Align text right |
| Ctrl+J | Justify text |
| Ctrl+1 | Set single line spacing |
| Ctrl+2 | Set double line spacing |
| Ctrl+5 | Set line spacing to 1.5 |
| Ctrl+Shift+> | Increase the font size |
| Ctrl+Shift+< | Decrease the font size |
| Ctrl+Shift+A | Change characters to ALL CAPITALS |
| Ctrl+Shift+L | Change the bullet style |
| Ctrl+D | Insert a Microsoft Paint drawing |
| Ctrl+F | Find text in a document |
| F3 | Find the next instance of that text |
| Ctrl+H | Replace text in a document |
| Ctrl+Left Arrow | Move the cursor one word to the left |
| Ctrl+Right Arrow | Move the cursor one word to the right |
| Ctrl+Up Arrow | Move the cursor to the line above |
| Ctrl+Down Arrow | Move the cursor to the line below |
| Ctrl+Home | Move to the beginning of the document |
| Ctrl+End | Move to the end of the document |
| Ctrl+Page Up | Move up one page |
| Ctrl+Page Down | Move down one page |
| Ctrl+Delete | Delete the next word |
| F10 | Display keytips |
| Shift+F10 | Show the current shortcut menu |
| F1 | Open WordPad Help |
Windows 7 offers many other keyboard shortcuts; many of them work in Windows Vista and Windows XP, as well.
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Windows 7.
Tags: keyboard shortcuts, shortcut key, wordpad
Comments
Comment from Andy Rathbone
Time July 14, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Ron, to enter the shortcut key, you hold down the Ctrl key, press J, then let go of the Ctrl key. That’s the way all shortcut keys work, whether you’re using the Ctrl or the Windows key. You hold down the one key while pressing another.
Comment from judi mohler
Time September 17, 2019 at 6:56 am
I use Wordpad to record FREECELL games I have played. Just installed 2016 Office and Ctl-s in Wordpad now scrolls down a page instead of saving. I have been using short cuts since the first release of these products. suggestions?
Comment from Andy Rathbone
Time September 17, 2019 at 1:05 pm
Judi: It sounds like another program has grabbed that shortcut key for itself, which is odd, because pressing Ctrl+S saves the file both in my copy of WordPad and Microsoft Word 2013. Perhaps something changed with Word 2016.
Either way, as a workaround, try pressing Alt+F+S to save Wordpad’s currently open file.
When you press and release the Alt key, Wordpad places shortcut letters that will bring down the menus. Pressing F brings the File menu, for example, which drops down, complete with a list of shortcut letters.
Pressing S at that point saves the file.
Comment from Ron
Time July 14, 2010 at 7:21 am
Unable to justify in wordpad
Tried ctrl J
Do I hold ctrl down while tapping J ??