Windows 7 – Shortcut for Creating a New File

Do you mean to say you want the following File/New dialog to show up on pressing a keyboard shortcut?

That's quite easy to do! Most people don't know that keyboard shortcuts can be customized in Office apps as per user preferences. For example, I didn't like how Word 2010 popped up the Navigation Pane (Pain?) when I pressed Ctrl+F, instead of the simple Find and Replace dialog that older versions did, so I simply remapped the shortcut to the older dialog and now all's fine with the wor(l)d! :)

1. Go to File / Options (indented under Help) / Customize Ribbon

2. Press the Keyboard shortcuts: Customize button shown below:

   

3. Select All Commands under Categories and FileNew under Commands

4. Navigate to/click in the Press new shortcut key field and press your desired shortcut (I have pressed Alt+` (backquote/tilde key) in the screenshot below:

   

5. Click Assign (the shortcut key will move to the Current keys area)

6. Finally, click Close and OK in the Word Options dialog

   

7. You're done! Press Alt+` and watch the magic unfold! :D

Note #1: If you go through the default mapped shortcuts, you'll see that it's very much possible to assign multiple keyboard shortcuts to the same command.

Note #2: To duplicate the Find dialog fix I mentioned above, simply assign the Ctrl+F shortcut key to EditFind instead of the default NavPaneSearch, or you can assign a different shortcut to the former if you prefer quick access to both old and new Find dialogs.

There is a keyboard shortcut possible to create a Word document:

Windows 10 English version:

• Press the menu key
• Press W to select new
• Press M to select Microsoft word
• Press Enter to create the document