Do you regularly drag
your mouse over text to select or highlight it ready for formatting or editing?
If so, try these quick ways to select text - they will save you no
end of frustration and be kinder to your wrist!
Select one word
- Double click the word
- Select several words that are no adjacent to each other
- Hold the Ctrl key down and double click each word
- Select one line of text
Move the mouse to the left margin, the pointer will change to an arrow, then
single click
- Select one paragraph
Move the mouse to the left margin, the pointer will change to an arrow, then
double click
- Select one sentence
Hover the mouse pointer over any word in the sentence, hold the Ctrl key down
and single click
- Select several lines
Select the first line then, holding down the Shift key, press the down arrow on
the keyboard until you reach the last line
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Select the whole document
Move the mouse to the left margin, the pointer will change to an arrow, then
treble click
or - Press and hold the Ctrl key and quickly press and release the A key
Select everything with the same kind of formatting
You can sometimes need to apply an action to everything on a document that has
a specific kind of formatting. Word comes with a feature for it. On
the Home tab on the Ribbon, go to last section (the Editing section ) and
click on Select . The last item on the menu: Select text with similar
formatting helps you get the job done.