From the course: Word 2013 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Selecting text with the mouse or keyboard

Selecting text with the mouse or keyboard - Microsoft Word Tutorial

From the course: Word 2013 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Selecting text with the mouse or keyboard

If you were following along in the previous movie, we learned that we could select text, and simply type over it to replace it with something else. Well, there are numbers of selection techniques, and shortcuts, and we're going to review those now as we continue to work with our Style Guide. If you've jumped to this lesson, you can get caught up by opening up Style Guide2 from the Chapter2 folder of those Exercise Files. So, here we are on Page 1. Let's say we wanted to select the word Identity. Maybe we just want to change the look of the word, maybe we want to delete it; all you need to do is double-click. Double-clicking automatically selects an entire word. Now, of course, you can click and drag, but double-clicking is a little bit quicker. What if we triple-click anywhere on that first line? Notice it selects an entire line, or what we would call a paragraph. By default, it's looking for that hard Return that happens at the end. If we were to scroll a little further down the…

Contents