Microsoft Word Shortcuts: Ctrl + I

One Minute YouTube Video on How to Memorize Ctrl + i

This chapter gives you some models on using italic formatting style in a Microsoft Word file. Those are the examples we see in our day to day reading. Try to keep these points in your mind while create a Word file. 

Secondly, you go through a short video and a brief description with some images on how to memorize Ctrl + I: the keyboard shortcut for applying Italics style in Word.

An Italic word is a word slightly slanted right in a sentence or phrase. 

When something slanted right among a group of regular style words, it takes your attention easily. i.e., the italic style stands for catching a reader’s attention quickly. 

A document always contains some words or phrase in italic style. Let’s check what are the common circumstances where you can apply Italic.

To apply italic formatting while you are in Word, select the text for which you want to apply this formatting and press Ctrl + I.

Italic Styles

Woodrow Wilson is the only US president buried in Washington, DC. Here, only is slanted right to get special attention.

Barak Obama is the first African American president of the United States. Here the word first is slanted right to give importance to that.

Art Work -  Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

News papers / Agencies - The Obama Foundation also gathered 200 young African leaders in Johannesburg in advance of the former president's address to "study and debate Mandela’s legacy and leadership attributes," South African news site the Citizen reported.

Plays - Romeo & Juliet

Books - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; The Republic, Plato.

Movies - Twilight

Trains - Venice Simplon-Orient-Express: (London to Venice), Blue Train: (Pretoria to Cape Town).

Ships – The Santa Maria, RMS Titanic. 

Spacecraft – NASA’s Challenger

Foreign words - When you are writing a sentence in English and want to put a foreign word. Example : I’ve got only 10 minutes for lunch, so I’ll stop at a cafe for a quick sandwich. Understand that café is a French word.

Do Not

  • Do not completely italicize part of a book. Example: a chapter in a book.
  • Do not italicize religious books – Qur-an, Bible, Torah.
  • Do not use italic & underline at the same time – He is the only one escaped.

I hope you don’t need a formal explanation to memorize Word Ctrl + I keyboard shortcut once you watch the video. 

How to Memorize Ctrl + I ?

If this is the first time you are visiting this website go through this link to get a better idea about the hand and the Ctrl Key relation.

the Small Letter i Has a Ball on the Top of It.

The small letter i itself contain a ball on the top of it. When the Ctrl key / hand hit it, this ball drops on italics one by one. Finally the word italics changes from regular formatting style into italic formatting.