This tip contains shortcut keys for simple and faster work with fields.

Sometimes you need to see a word count statistics without obtaining readability or AutoSummarize information. For example, you might have been given a limit on how many words a document can be for a particular assignment - magazines and newspapers commonly set this type of limit.

In addition to searching for and replacing text, you can search for and replace Word's special characters, such as paragraph and tab marks.

When you create a new blank document, any text you type appears in the default font, which is called Calibri, at a font size of 11 points, which is a standard size for text in everyday documents (such as letters or reports).

In Word 2010 equation many symbols can be inserted using a \+name of the symbol:

In Word 2010 equations many mathematical symbols can be inserted using the \+name of the symbol (how to insert Greek symbols, see Shortcut keys for inserting Greek symbols into the equation):

Mathematical and other texts require a large number of special symbols that are not present on the keyboard. To simplify this task, you can assign a shortcut for frequently used symbol.

The following tips contain Shortcut Keys or Hotkeys for changing style parameters of paragraph without mouse movements.

If you are the one of those who care about productivity of the work and tend to use keyboard instead of using a mouse to open menus and run commands, you might be interested how to reveal keyboard shortcuts and add more shortcuts to Word.

If you need to use current date or time stamp, Word provides two shortcut keys that do this for you.