Computer Knowledge Study Notes on MS Office 2016 for IBPS RRB 2017 Exam

MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel are the most used and most popular applications of the Microsoft Office Application Suit. If you are preparing for the computer awareness section for various bank recruitment exams you must be well aware of various terms and short cut key combinations of these 3 applications specifically.

MS Office is essentially suite of products developed by Microsoft Corporation that includes Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Each program serves a different purpose and is compatible with other programs included in the package. The suite of programs is compatible with both the Windows and Macintosh operating system.

Microsoft Office 2016 is the latest version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011. Office 2016 is available in 5 different editions. Following are the applications with Office 2016 (the applications provided vary with different edition subscriptions):

Microsoft Word: Helps users in creating text documents.
Microsoft Excel: Creates simple to complex data/numerical spread sheets.
Microsoft PowerPoint: Stand-alone application for creating professional multimedia presentations.
Microsoft Access: Database management application.
Microsoft Publisher: Introductory application for creating and publishing marketing materials.
Microsoft OneNote: Alternate to a paper notebook, it enables a user to neatly organize their notes.
Microsoft Outlook: Personal information manager; often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, journal, and web browsing.

Some useful and important shortcut keys of MS Office applications

Go to "Tell me what you want to do"	Alt+Q
Open	Ctrl+O
Save	Ctrl+S
Close	Ctrl+W
Cut	Ctrl+X
Copy	Ctrl+C
Paste	Ctrl+V
Select all	Ctrl+A
Bold	Ctrl+B
Italic	Ctrl+I
Underline	Ctrl+U
Decrease font size 1 point	Ctrl+[
Increase font size 1 point	Ctrl+]
Centre text	Ctrl+E
Left align text	Ctrl+L
Right align text	Ctrl+R
Justify align text	Ctrl+J
Cancel	Esc
Undo	Ctrl+Z
Re-do	Ctrl+Y
Zoom	Alt+W, Q, then tab in Zoom dialog box to the value you want.
Copy formatting from text.	Ctrl+Shift+C
Apply copied formatting to text.	Ctrl+Shift+V