What matters here is the version of Word.

In Word 2013, you find a synonym by arrowing to the word in an open 
document, pressing the applications key, hitting the letter Y or 
down-arrowing to and pressing enter on Synonyms. At this point, you just 
down-arrow through the list of suggestions and press enter on the one 
you want.

I don't remember whether Word 2010 does the same thing or not.

In earlier versions of Word, you need to press the applications key, 
press enter on Synonyms, press F6 to go into the Research pain. After 
that, I don't remember. Well, I remember tabbing, swearing, and muddling 
around for a while to figure it out each time.


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