MS Office Tip: Repeat Previous Action using F4
In Microsoft Office, you can repeat your previous action performed using the F4 key on the keyboard. The computer remembers your previous action and this can be repeated using F4.
For example say you have drawn a table using the tools menu in word and you need to repeat the same table in another page or another word document. This time you need not got to the menu, just click on the place where you need to table and press F4, done you have the new table. Note that computer remembers the last action and in between you do any other action, it will repeat the last action.
This tip is helpful when you are doing lots of formating in Word or Excel sheets. Hope you enjoyed reading this tip.
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Dec 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
yep that was a nice simple tip like the ctrl+Z to undo…
Dec 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
@Rajesh,
This is really useful if you are doing lot of formatting with Word or Excel.
Dec 18th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
nice find nirmal, even i was not aware of it, never ever heard of it before. But, it was not working flawlessly on office 07, some of the functions or commands were not responding, but mostly did.
Dec 18th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
@Vaibhav,
I think some commands may not work in Office 2007, but will work in 2003. I have tested few and was successful.
Dec 18th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
awesome tips Nirmal!
Sweet and simple tips always help and this one will surely
Dec 18th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Nice tip buddy! I think every application should have a shortcut ‘?’ that will show us all the other shortcuts!
Dec 19th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Great tip nirmal , I didnt know about this. I still wonder such kind of productive tips are still like a secret. I think microsoft should really do something to educate the users
Dec 19th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Nice tip Nirmal. I hardly know and use these shortcuts. Will try to remember it now
Dec 19th, 2007 at 5:06 am
nice tip buddy, i use shortcuts but never knew this
Dec 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I use it frequently for inserting or deleting rows in Excel whenever they are more time saving than traditional approach of selecting the number of row and inserting or deleting.
Dec 19th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
@Jalaj,
Good to see that some one is already using this tip.
Dec 20th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Nice tip Nirmal. This is a real time-saver.
Dec 20th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
pretty cool Nirmal. never knew about it.
Jan 4th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Cool find buddy. Stumbled to share the love.
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Good trip, but it doesn’t work in Office 07
, someone knows more?
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