Windows Live Writer Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Live Writer Tricks tutorials are increasing day by day. WLW is a visual blog editor for Windows. It works with most blogging platfo...

Windows Live Writer Tricks tutorials are increasing day by day. WLW is a visual blog editor for Windows. It works with most blogging platforms like WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, and others. I always use it when I write posts even when I am offline. As a regular user of this useful editor I just figured out many keyboard shortcuts while playing with this cool high quality text editor. I have compiled each and every keyboard shortcut that works with Windows Live Writer and have listed them below for your ease.

The Complete List of Windows Live Writer Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts	Function
CTRL + Z	To Undo
CTRL + X	To Cut
CTRL + C	To Copy
CTRL + V	To Paste
CTRL + B	To Bold
CTRL + N	To Open a New Post
CTRL + A	To Highlight All text
CTRL + S	To Auto Save
CTRL + F	To Find a word or phrase
CTRL + H	To strikethrough
CTRL + K	To Insert Hyperlink
CTRL + L	To Insert Image
CTRL + Y	To Redo
CTRL + U	To underline
CTRL + I	Change to italic
CTRL + O	To Open Drafts or Recently posted posts
CTRL + P	To Print the post
F11	Switches To Edit window
F12	Switches To Preview window
SHIFT + F11	Switches To Source window
CTRL + F11	Toggles theme usage
CTRL + SHIFT + C	To Set Category/ Tag
CTRL + SHIFT + V	Paste Special: Lets you whether to keep or remove text formatting when you copy text from WordPad, excel, blogs or websites
CTRL + SHIFT + P	To Publish the post

You can read read more about it in this post -> Learn How To Do Offline blogging with windows live writer

If you know any hidden keyboard shortcut of WLW then kindly share it with us all! :>