As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using keyboard shortcuts--especially in Microsoft Word. But there are some program functions, like Word Count, that don't have shortcuts ...

Then right-click on the shortcut, go to Properties, and add a space and /mfile1 after the path in the Target field. You should rename the shortcut to reflect it'll open your last used document.

Learn how to create a keyboard shortcut for Emoji in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and other Office apps on Windows 11/10.

In Microsoft Word, I like to make shortcuts that start with an asterisk (like *p for my phone number, for example), but the asterisk is hard to get to on the iPhone.

Find the Modern app you want to create a shortcut to. Right-click on it and choose “Create shortcut”. It’ll show up on your desktop.

You can also create a keyboard shortcut that runs a Word command, as described on the Productivity Portfolio site.

Autotext allows users to insert words, phrases, and whole paragraphs into the document without having to type them again and again. It is an important feature of MS Word for users who do a lot of ...