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Acrobat/Word shortcuts

Adobe Acrobat Pro

Shortcut Description
Ctrl + A Select all on pages
Ctrl + B Add Bookmark
Ctrl + Shift + A Deselect all on page
Ctrl + C Copy selected text
Ctrl + D Document Properties (Description, Security, Fonts, Initial View, Custom, Advanced)
Ctrl + Shift + D Delete page/page range (opens select window)
Ctrl + E Properties bar toggle
Ctrl + F Find
Ctrl + Shift + F Find all
Ctrl + G Find again
Ctrl + H Read mode (no Tool bars)
Ctrl + Shift + H Auto scroll to end (toggle)
Ctrl + Alt + I PitStop Inspector
Ctrl + Shift + J cascade windows
Ctrl + K Preferences Acrobat
Ctrl + Alt + K Preferences PitStop
Ctrl + Shift + K tile windows horizontally
Ctrl + L toggle full screen
Ctrl + Shift + L tile windows vertically
Ctrl + M next page
Ctrl + Shift + M previous page
Ctrl + N Open file and convert it to PDF
Ctrl + Shift + N go to page (insert number in box)
Ctrl + O Open document
Ctrl + P Print current document
Ctrl + Q Exit program (ask if unsaved PDFs)
Ctrl + R Ruler (toggle)
Ctrl + Shift + R Rotate page (opens select window)
Ctrl + S Save PDF
Ctrl + Shift + S Save as
Ctrl + U Grid toggle
Ctrl + V Paste text (only in Edit Text & Image)
Ctrl + W Close window
Ctrl + X Cut selected text (only in Edit Text & Image)
Ctrl + Shift + X Preflight Acrobat (embed fonts etc.) (toggle)
Ctrl + Z Undo Acrobat (last action)
Ctrl + Shift + Z Redo Acrobat (last action)
Ctrl + 0 Zoom in
Ctrl + 1 Zoom out
Ctrl + Shift + 1 Rotate view counterclockwise
Ctrl + 2 Fit Width
Ctrl + 3 Fit Visible
Ctrl + 4 reflow and destroy
Ctrl + 6 Enter comment
Ctrl + + next page
F4 Navigation pane toggle (Thumbnails)
F8 Toolbar toggle
Alt + F8 Reset Toolbar
F9 Menue bar toggle (File, Edit, View, …)

Word

Shortcut Description
Ctrl + A Select all on page
Ctrl + Shift + A all CAPS (toggle)
Ctrl + B Bold (toggle)
Ctrl + D font panel
Ctrl + Shift + D double underline
Ctrl + E Center (toggle)
Ctrl + I Italic (toggle)
Ctrl + J Justify paragraph
Ctrl + K insert hyperlink
Ctrl + Shift + K small capitals
Ctrl + L paragraph left aligned
Ctrl + R paragraph right aligned
Ctrl + U underline text
Ctrl + + Superscript (toggle)
Crtl + - insert unbreakable hyphen
Crtl + Shift + < decrease font size
Crtl + Shift + > increase font size
Ctrl+Shift+Enter Column Break
Crtl+Shift+Space unbreakable space
Ctrl+Backspace Delete Word back
Ctrl+Delete Delete Word
F1 + Shift show formatting
F3 + Shift case toggle (CAPS, lowercase, original)
F7 + Shift Thesaurus
F7 + Alt Next Misspelling