In Office 2008 for Mac, you can move the cursor around your document without actually even touching the mouse. And if you really want to become a whiz with Word, you’ll want to memorize most or all of the following shortcuts. Here’s a table that shows how to move the cursor around a document using.
Ctrl + Enter: Insert page break. If you want to start some text on a new page in your Word document.
Select one or more characters. Click in front of the first character and drag across the characters you want to select. Double-click the word. Select a paragraph. Triple-click in the paragraph. Select all objects and text. Deselect all objects and text. Extend the text selection.

1. Frequently Used Shortcuts
⌘+Z or Ctrl+Z	Undo the last action
⌘+X or Ctrl+X	Cut selected text or graphics
⌘+C or Ctrl+C	Copy selected text or graphics to the Clipboard
⌘+V or Ctrl+V	Paste the Clipboard contents
Option+⌘+G	Choose the Go To command (Edit menu)
Option+⌘+L	Open the Spelling and Grammar dialog box
F8	Extend a selection
⌘+` (Grave accent)	Go to the next window
⌘+Shift+S	Choose the Save As command (File menu).
Shift+F2	Copy selected text
Shift+F3	Change letters to uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case
Ctrl+F for Find; Ctrl+H for Find and Replace	Find or Find and Replace
⌘+P or Ctrl+P	Print a document
Shift+F5	Move to the previous insertion point
⌘+Shift+` (Grave accent)	Go to the previous window
Shift+F7	Open the Thesaurus pane
Shift+F8	Shrink a selection
Shift+F9	Switch between a field code and its result
⌘+F3	Cut the selection to the Spike
⌘+F4	Close the window
Option+⌘+R	Expand or minimize the ribbon
⌘+Shift+F5	Edit a bookmark
Option+F7	Find the next misspelling or grammatical error. The Check spelling as you type check box must be selected (Word menu, Preferences command, Spelling and Grammar).
⌘+Shift+L	Look up selected text on the Internet

If you are using a Mac computer, the table below will help you find shortcuts to type some special symbols in Microsoft Word. To use these shortcuts, Hold down the Option key, or the Shift key or both, then type the specified character. For example, to type the delta symbol, press Option + J. When I am editing a Word document using track changes it would be nice not to have to got to the mouse to insert a comment at the cursor (since this is most of what my editing consists of). What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment at the cursor in MS Word on a Mac when using track changes? I am running Word 14.2.5 and OS X 10.5.8.

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Mac Word Shortcuts

2. Move the Cursor
Move the cursor	Some Windows keyboard shortcuts conflict with the corresponding default Mac OS keyboard shortcuts. To use these shortcuts, you may have to change your Mac keyboard settings to change the Show Desktop shortcut for the key.
Arrow Left	Move one character to the left
Arrow Right	Move one character to the right
Option+Arrow Left	Move one word to the left
Option+Arrow Right	Move one word to the right
⌘+Arrow Up	Move one paragraph up
⌘+Arrow Down	Move one paragraph down
Shift+Tab	Move one cell to the left (in a table)
Tab	Move one cell to the right (in a table)
Arrow Up	Move up one line
Arrow Down	Move down one line
⌘+Arrow Right or End	Move to the end of a line
⌘+Arrow Left or Home	Move to the beginning of a line
Page Up	Move up one screen (scrolling)
Page Down	Move down one screen (scrolling)
⌘+Page Down	Move to the top of the next page
⌘+Page Up	Move to the top of the previous page
⌘+End; On a MacBook keyboard: ⌘+FN+Arrow Right	To the end of a document
⌘+Home; On a MacBook keyboard: ⌘+FN+Arrow Left	To the beginning of a document
Shift+F5	To the previous insertion point

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3. Select text and graphics
Select the first item that you want, hold down ⌘ , and then select any additional items.	Select multiple items not next to each other
Shift+Arrow Right	Select one character to the right
Shift+Arrow Left	Select one character to the left
Shift+Option+Arrow Right	Select one word to the right
Shift+Option+Arrow Left	Select one word to the left
⌘+Shift+Arrow Right or Shift+End	Select to the end of a line
⌘+Shift+Arrow Left or Shift+Home	Select to the beginning of a line
Shift+Arrow Down	Select one line down
Shift+Arrow Up	Select one line up
⌘+Shift+Arrow Down	Select to the end of a paragraph
⌘+Shift+Arrow Up	Select to the beginning of a paragraph
Shift+Page Down	Select one screen down
Shift+Page Up	Select one screen up
⌘+Shift+Home	Select to the beginning of a document
⌘+Shift+End	Select to the end of a document
Option+⌘+Shift+Page Down	Select to the end of a window
⌘+A	Select to select the entire document
⌘+Shift+F8 , and then use the arrow keys; press Esc to cancel selection mode.	Select to a vertical block of text
F8 , and then use the arrow keys; press Esc to cancel selection mode.	Select to a specific location in a document

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Mac For Word Shortcuts