


If you format text with multiple formatting commands (e.g.However, there are traps, as listed in the caveats below. You can continue pressing F4 throughout the document to keep applying the same command to other pieces of text. The next piece of text gets the same style. Apply a style to some text, select the next piece of text where you want to apply that same style, then press F4.That table will also autofit to the window. Put your cursor in a table and apply the ‘autofit to window’ command, go to the next table, put your cursor anywhere in it, then press F4.(See this blog post on jumping to the next table: ) Voila! The same shading is applied to this new row. Apply background shading to a table header row, go to the next table’s header row, then press F4.

What it does is apply your immediate last command to the text where you are now. Another neat Word keyboard shortcut that many non power users of Word don’t know about, but that can save heaps of time is the F4 key (or the Ctrl+Y key combination).
