Microsoft Office Word

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description	Custom
A-F9	Toggle view/hide field code
C-F9	Create a new field
C-S-e	Toggle track changes mode
A-F11	Show Visual Basic
A-im	Insert comment

Tips

• Creating cross-references in Word (See [1])
• When using bookmarks (as in tip above), better make the bookmarks visible (Menu Tools → View → Show Bookmarks).
  This will avoid to inadvertently insert text inside some predefined bookmarks (particularly relevant when cross-referecing the bookmark with field { REF } )

Fields and Switches

Fields

• The Seq field ([2])

Field code	Result
{ SEQ MySeq \# 000 \* MERGEFORMAT }	000 001 002

• The = (formula) field
  • Invalid character setting error → see section below
• The Ref field
  • Example: { REF myBookmark \h } (\h indicates that cross-reference is also an hyper-link)

Field switches

• The format (\*) field switch ([3])
• The Numeric Picture (\#) field switch ([4])
  • Examples: { = 4 + 5 \# 00.00 } displays "09.00", { = 9 + 6 \# $### } displays "$ 15", { = 111053 + 111439 \# x## } displays "492", { = 1/8 \# 0.00x } displays "0.125".

Troubleshoot

• Invalid character setting error when using the = (formula) field

This is due to incorrect regional setting, when both list separator and decimal separator are the same (see [5] and [6])