Wednesday 24 June 2015

Selecting Text in Microsoft Word

Still clicking and dragging to select the text in your Word documents? Try these....

Double-click to select a word

Making a single word bold? No problem, just double click to select the word, then click bold. For several words, hold down the CTRL key as you double click the other words.

Double-click to select a word

CTRL click to select a sentence 

A sentence is any amount of text between two full stops. CTRL click on any word to select the entire sentence.

CTRL click to select a sentence

Click to select a row

Point at the white space in the left hand margin and click to select the current row. Then drag down to select more rows.

Click to the left to select a row

Double-click to select a paragraph

Again, pointing at the white space in the left hand margin, double-click to select the entire paragraph.

Double-click to select a paragraph

Triple-click to select the whole document

Point at the white space in the left hand margin and triple-click to select all the text in the document. Or press CTRL+A.

Triple-click to select the document

Click twice to position text

Yearning to make a word cloud? Sick of setting tab stops? To easily place text anywhere on the page, just click twice on any place on the page and start typing. Word inserts the paragraph markers and tabs required. That's not a double-click, it's two clicks one after the other.

Click twice to position text

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