Our ms word tutorial on this page will talk about the hotkeys for the outline view when you have to work with documents and web pages.
All the shortcut keys are already listed for you below. If you need to..
Show the first line of body text or all body text. Press ALT+SHIFT+L
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Hide or display character formatting. The slash (/) key on the numeric keypad
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Move selected paragraphs up. Press ALT+SHIFT+UP ARROW
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Move selected paragraphs down. Press ALT+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
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Show all headings with the Heading 1 style. Press ALT+SHIFT+1
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Show all headings up to Heading n. Press ALT+SHIFT+n
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Promote a paragraph. Press ALT+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
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Demote a paragraph. Press ALT+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
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Demote to body text. Press CTRL+SHIFT+N
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Expand text under a heading. Press ALT+SHIFT+PLUS SIGN
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Collapse text under a heading. Press ALT+SHIFT+MINUS SIGN
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Expand or collapse all text or headings. Press ALT+SHIFT+A
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Insert a tab character. Press CTRL+TAB
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That's all for the Hotkeys of the outline view when you have to work with a document or web page. I hope the shortcut keys listed on this page will has any useful for you.^^
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