Alt+Shift+up arrow or down arrow

Hi,

from the support page, in office 2016 to move one paragraph up or down you use CTRL + arrow up /down.

One paragraph up CTRL+UP ARROW
One paragraph down CTRL+DOWN ARROW

In my Word 2016, Alt Shift Up Arrow highlights the paragraph UP and Alt Shift Down Arrow highlights the paragraph DOWN so these keys seem to be working normally.

That the keys work for you in Outlook 2016 (which uses Word as its editor) is of concern.

Try doing a full Office Repair from Control Panel, restart when the repair is done and then Update Office. New Updates this weekend past.

Scott,
In word 2016 it is Control+up arrow and control+down arrow to move the paragraph.

ref link:  https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Keyboard-shortcuts-for-Microsoft-Word-2016-for-Windows-95ef89dd-7142-4b50-afb2-f762f663ceb2
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@Scott @John

i am wondering if you two are using different keyboard layout in Windows, e.g. US keyboard, or Canada keyboard?

I use US Keyboard layout on all my machines. Not a keyboard issue.

Thanks for the suggestions. A couple of you suggested CTRL+UP/DOWN ARROW -- however, that key sequence moves the cursor up/down one paragraph but does not move the paragraph itself.

I agree with John Hurst that it is odd that the desired key sequence works in Outlook but not in Word. That's why I mentioned it -- because it is strange. I'll try an Office repair and update when I can make time this week.

Re the keyboard. I've tried with two different physical keyboards, both are US configuration. Same result with both.

In my Word 2016 and my Outlook 2016 both (and both the same), Alt-Shift-Up / Down arrow moves the highlighting up or down by paragraph. Both Word and Outlook do the same. This key sequence does not move the paragraph.

Interesting, John.

In this 9-second video you'll see what I mean. In Outlook, you'll see 'Line 2' move below 'Line 3'. That's the result of pressing Alt+Shift+down arrow. In Word, the line doesn't move despite using the same keystrokes.

Just to be sure I'm not crazy, I fired up a virtual machine running Office 2010 and in it, the key sequence works correctly in Word. And this is from the Word 2010 keyboard shortcut list:I just want the same sequence to work in Word 2016!

One last test, John, if you don't mind. The Office 2016 keyboard shortcuts article that two people linked to above says that Alt+Shift+up/down moves the selected paragraph in outline view. Can you try that? It does not behave that way for me, even in outline view.

What happens (and why I did not see it the first time) is that the keyboard shortcut highlights (not outline) the paragraph and move the highlighted selection.

Ah, so it does move the paragraph? That would suggest that Word behavior hasn't changed but that there is some local issue on my PC. I'll have to figure out what this is...

Thanks, John.

You are very welcome and I was happy to help. The highlighting obscured what I was looking at so sorry for my earlier confusion.