Shortcuts for any application just makes the job easier at any stage. But at the same time we cannot remember all the short-cuts in our mind and at the same time referring to Internet at all the time sometimes makes job painful especially when you are behind the corporate firewall. In a big word processing application like Microsoft Word, the number of shortcuts are huge and cannot be remembered as I mentioned earlier. So today I am gonna pen about finding Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts using the built-in macros that comes with the software.

Word macros are nothing but user-defined commands to automate a task or series of tasks using user-defined keystrokes. You can read more about Macros in wikipedia. Please see the below given steps to create those shortcuts using Macros.

1. Open Microsoft Word. Go to Tools -> Macro from the Menu and click on Macros sub-menu.

2. Select “Word Commands” in the dialog box you get and type in “ListCommands” in the Macro Name text box as shown below.

3. Then click “Run” in the dialog box shown above.

4. Then in you will get a new select box as shown below

5. Select “All Word Commands” in the select box shown above and click OK.

6. That’s it. You are done. You can see the Macro generating all the available Word shortcuts in to the word document. Once it is done with the generation of the shortcuts just save it for future reference.