Formatting shortcuts for quickly creating beautiful and readable documents with text decoration, emphasis, and style settings

Ctrl+B

Bold

Makes the selected text bold.

💡 Hint: Bold

🎯 Useful for emphasizing important keywords or headings to improve document readability and visual appeal

Ctrl+I

Italic

Makes the selected text italic.

💡 Hint: Italic

🎯 Useful for italicizing quotes or technical terms to distinguish text with special meaning in documents

Ctrl+U

Underline

Underlines the selected text.

💡 Hint: Underline

🎯 Useful for underlining links or important points to clearly highlight areas that require reader attention

Alt+Shift+5

Strikethrough

Strikes through the selected text.

💡 Hint: Alt+Shift+5 strike

🎯 Useful for showing content to be deleted or corrections with strikethrough to visually represent change history

Ctrl+.

Superscript

Makes the selected text superscript.

💡 Hint: . superscript

🎯 Useful for creating superscript exponents in formulas or trademark symbols for accurate representation in professional or academic documents

Ctrl+,

Subscript

Makes the selected text subscript.

💡 Hint: , subscript

🎯 Useful for creating subscript chemical formulas or mathematical symbols for accurate notation in scientific documents

Ctrl+Alt+C

Copy formatting

Copies the formatting of the selected text.

💡 Hint: Ctrl+Alt+C format copy

🎯 Useful for copying unified formatting to other text to maintain design consistency throughout the document

Ctrl+\ → Ctrl+Space

Clear formatting

Clears formatting from the selected text.

💡 Hint: Ctrl+\ clear

🎯 Useful for removing unnecessary formatting to return to plain text and reset document style

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