You can quickly accomplish tasks you perform frequently by using hot keys — one or more keys you press on the keyboard to complete a task. Hot keys are also known as shortcut keys.

For example, pressing CTRL+B changes the selected text to bold, just as clicking Bold on the Formatting toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.) or selecting Bold in the Font dialog box (Format menu) changes the selected text to bold.

You can also run a macro (macro: An action or a set of actions you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.) that creates a list of the current shortcut key assignments, and then print the list.

1) On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.
2) In the Macros in box, click Word commands.
3) In the Macro name box, click ListCommands.
4) Click Run.
5) In the List Commands dialog box, click Current menu and keyboard settings.
6) Click OK.
7) On the File menu, click Print.