12th October 2001

Billy and I were prepping for a Microsoft Word demo the other day when his fingers slipped. The paragraph in focus suddenly changed format! We were a bit surprised - since this was a keyboard shortcut that neither of us knew about. Put the cursor inside one of your favorite paragraphs and give it a shot. Press ALT + SHIFT + the left or right arrow key. Weird, huh? It seems to keep the font face intact - while changing its size and toggling the bold and italic attributes. Go ahead, keep tapping the combo. It seems to cycle through various shapes and sizes, but I can't seem to find a logic to their progression. I suppose you could use this feature if you wanted a quick way to change the formatting of a particular paragraph. Unfortunately, you can't use this specific trick on a single word or sentence. Okay, now that your formatting is doing fine, why don't you select that paragraph again by triple-clicking it, then with your right mouse button, drag & drop it elsewhere in the document. You'll see five options pop up: Copy Here, Move Here, Link Here, Create Hyperlink Here, or Cancel. If you had used the left mouse button, Word would have moved the section without asking you what you wanted to do with it.