Why bother to lift your hands from the keyboard if you want to open or close a document, apply formatting to text and paragraphs, do a spell check, navigate through a document, or undo and redo actions? With keyboard shortcuts you won’t have to. Word’s Ribbon interface is great for finding everything you might ever want to do in the word processor - particularly things you don’t do frequently, like inserting footnotes or doing a mail merge.īut if you’re looking to do common tasks fast, you’ll find keyboard shortcuts far more useful.