Useful key bindings in Word

Key combination	What it does
Ctrl+Space	strip off manual character formatting of highlighted text
Ctrl+q	strip off manual paragraph formatting of current paragraph
Ctrl+Shift+n	apply the normal style to highlighted text/current paragraph
Ctrl+Shift+8	toggle show/hide hidden characters (like the ¶ button)
Ctrl+Shift+e	toggle track changes on/off
Ctrl+h	open find/replace dialog (F5 for find only)
Ctrl+y	redo
Shift+F5	visit the last 3 insertion points, cyclicly; if used immediately after opening a document, takes you to where you were working when you closed it
Shift+F3	cycle through cases (eg ALL UPPER) for the highlighted text
F8	select word/word/sentence/para/whole document with consecutive presses
Ctrl+F3	cut selected text to the spike^a
Ctrl+Shift+F3	paste from the spike
Ctrl+hyphen	optional hyphen (for line breaking)
Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen	nonbreaking hyphen (for things like X-ray)
Ctrl+Shift+Space	nonbreaking space (for things like J Smith) (HTML insiders, think  )
Ctrl + Keypad minus	en rule (called an en dash by the vulgar)
Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen / Keypad minus	might insert an em rule (does not seem reliable)
Ctrl+Shift+c	copy formatting (like Format Painter) but does not forget after a single pasting
Ctrl+Shift+v	paste formatting (like Format Painter) but does not forget after a single pasting
Alt+F9	toggle visibility of field codes
F4	repeat last action (Vim users, think of '.')

^a When you cut to the spike, the text is removed from the page. Let's say you have 4 paragraphs A, B, C and D (could be other objects, images, tables). You highlight A and Ctrl+F3, then go elsewhere in the document and highlight B (Ctrl+F3) then C and D. The contents of the spike is now all 4 paragraphs. You go to your insertion point and hit Ctrl+Shift+F3, and each paragraph is pasted on its own line, in the order A, B, C, D. You can use the spike to make extracts, reorder paragraphs, and so on. It's not like the copy buffer.

You cut, not copy, to the spike -- the text is gone from the page(s).
When you paste from the spike using Ctrl+Shift+F3, the spike is empty; you can't past multiple copies of the same contents (of course, once you've pasted the spike contents back in, you can Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v all you like). You can paste multiple times using the 'Insert → Quick Parts → Autotext' menu. Why? I don't know.
Smart (ie dumb) selection in Word will, unless you are careful, grab the paragraph marker at the end of paragraph. Because the spike pastes things on their own line it creates new paragraph markers, and, this will cause empty lines between blocks when you paste. You can (i) live with it (ii) turn off smart select (iii) use the keyboard or careful back-and-forth with the mouse to avoid cutting the marker. Of course, if you don't cut the marker, you'll have empty lines where the selections were, if they were whole paragraphs...
If you can be bothered, you can find out how to view the contents of the spike before pasting. Google is your friend here or, seeing we're talking Microsoft Word, maybe Bing. The phrase 'Insert → Quick Parts' comes to mind, though that might be a euphemism for something...

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