Create or Generate Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Office

Make your tasks so much easier

A mouse is a handy tool, but point-and-click is a waste of time. You knew that, so you went and learned thebest keyboard shortcuts for Office and Windowsalready.

But maybe some repetitive tasks don’t have shortcut keys. Wouldn’t it be great if you could create your own keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Office? Well, you can.

How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Office

Let’s go through these steps in Word first. The steps are identical in Excel and PowerPoint on the desktop. Scroll down to see how to do this in Outlook.

TheFileSendPdfshortcut will automatically convert the document into a PDF, create a new email message in Outlook, attach the PDF, and give the email a Subject. One keystroke instead of a dozen or more point-and-clicks with a mouse is an incredible timesaver.

How to Clear Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Office

You may wish to get rid of all the custom keyboard shortcuts you’ve made in an Office app. It’s simple to do.

How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Outlook

Of all the Microsoft Office apps, Outlook is probably the one in which you spend the most time. It makes sense to create some custom keyboard shortcuts to get things done faster.

Unfortunately, since Outlook 2016, it doesn’t allow you to make keyboard shortcuts as we can in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. So what are your options?

It’s a workaround, but you can createQuick Stepsand assign key combinations to them. This won’t give you the ability to create a shortcut key combo for everything in Outlook, but it can meet most of your needs. There is a limit of nine key combos that you can assign to custom Quick Steps.

If you want to go a step further, you can create Outlook Desktop shortcuts using command line switches to make common tasks easier to do.

Practice Your Keyboard Shortcuts

Now you can create your own Microsoft Office shortcut keys. Print out a list of your most-used shortcuts and keep them beside your monitor. After a few days, you won’t need the cheat sheet anymore. Add in the command line switch shortcuts and it willboost your Microsoft Office productivityin no time.

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Create or Generate Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Office

How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Office

How to Clear Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Office

How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Outlook

Practice Your Keyboard Shortcuts