diff --git a/HotCommands/Commands/ExpandSelection.cs b/HotCommands/Commands/ExpandSelection.cs
index 5604ebd..96d7914 100644
--- a/HotCommands/Commands/ExpandSelection.cs
+++ b/HotCommands/Commands/ExpandSelection.cs
@@ -4,21 +4,13 @@
 // </copyright>
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-using System;
-using System.Globalization;
 using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell;
-using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop;
 using Microsoft.VisualStudio;
 using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Text;
 using System.Linq;
-using System.Collections;
-using System.Windows;
-using System.ComponentModel.Composition;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis;
 using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text;
-using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Classification;
-using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 
@@ -29,6 +21,23 @@ namespace HotCommands
     /// </summary>
     internal sealed class ExpandSelection : Command<ExpandSelection>
     {
+        public new static void Initialize(Package package)
+        {
+            Command<ExpandSelection>.Initialize(package);
+            ForceKeyboardBindings(package);
+        }
+
+        private static void ForceKeyboardBindings(Package package)
+        {
+            KeyBindingUtil.Initialize(package);
+            // We only want to force this keyboard binding if it is currently set to the default VS shortcut
+            // ie. Ctrl+W bound to Edit.SelectCurrentWord
+            if (KeyBindingUtil.BindingExists("Edit.SelectCurrentWord", "Text Editor::Ctrl+W"))
+            {
+                KeyBindingUtil.BindShortcut("Edit.IncreaseSelection", "Text Editor::Ctrl+W");
+            }
+        }
+
         public int HandleCommand(IWpfTextView textView, bool expand)
         {
             if (expand)
diff --git a/HotCommands/HotCommandsPackage.cs b/HotCommands/HotCommandsPackage.cs
index d40f44a..757ea18 100644
--- a/HotCommands/HotCommandsPackage.cs
+++ b/HotCommands/HotCommandsPackage.cs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 // </copyright>
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-using System;
 using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using HotCommands.Commands;
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ protected override void Initialize()
             FormatCode.Initialize(this);
             DuplicateSelection.Initialize(this);
             MoveMemberUp.Initialize(this);
-            MoveMemberDown.Initialize(this);            
+            MoveMemberDown.Initialize(this);
         }
 
         #endregion
diff --git a/HotCommands/KeyBindingUtil.cs b/HotCommands/KeyBindingUtil.cs
index 3b7fe6c..8c86792 100644
--- a/HotCommands/KeyBindingUtil.cs
+++ b/HotCommands/KeyBindingUtil.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System;
+using System.Linq;
 using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell;
 using EnvDTE;
 
@@ -36,6 +37,35 @@ private IServiceProvider ServiceProvider
             }
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Adds (appends) a binding for the given shortcut
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="commandName"></param>
+        /// <param name="shortcutDef"></param>
+        public static void BindShortcut(string commandName, string shortcutDef)
+        {
+            // Make sure we're not using the Default keyboard mapping scheme
+            DTE dte = (DTE)((IServiceProvider)package).GetService(typeof(DTE));
+            EnvDTE.Commands cmds = dte.Commands;
+            Command cmd = cmds.Item(commandName);
+            object[] newBindings = AppendKeyboardBinding(cmd, shortcutDef);
+            cmd.Bindings = newBindings;
+        }
+
+        internal static bool BindingExists(string commandName, string shortcutDef)
+        {
+            DTE dte = (DTE)((IServiceProvider)package).GetService(typeof(DTE));
+            EnvDTE.Commands cmds = dte.Commands;
+            // Find command
+            Command cmd = cmds.Item(commandName);
+            if (cmd == null) return false;
+            // Check if the binding is attached to it
+            object[] existingBindings = (object[])cmd.Bindings;
+            if (existingBindings == null) return false;
+            // Check if the keyboard binding is already there
+            return existingBindings.Contains(shortcutDef);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Note: Calling this is redundant if the original KeyBinding works in the vsct file.
         /// However, sometimes there is another command bound to the desired keybinding.