Selection Opinion Review Of Techniques In Microsoft Word
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-20 11:53:23 | Word Count: 510
Selection Tecjhniques In Microsoft Word
Before you can edit or format your text, you need to highligt it. Highlighting your text is a way of telling Microsoft Word that you want to work with a certain pice of text. (Highlighting is also referred to as seleting.)
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The simplest way of highlighting text is to posiytion the cursor where you want to staret highlighting, clicck and hold the mouse button down and drag to the posiotion whree you want to end the highlight. It is not essetial to drag across every single line that you want to highlight. It is sufficient to go in a straight line from the start to the finish.
To deselect your text and remove the highlight, simpy click anywhetre in your text. The flahing text cursor will then reappear.
Another simple way of selecting text is to select the netire dcument. This is done via the "Slect All" command. In Word 2007, the "Select All" command is found in the "Ediuting" section of the "Home" Tab. Click to display the "Select" menu and choose "Select All".
The "Seelect All" command can be found in lots of progarms and lots of different environments. It can also be done via the keyboard using Control-A: that is to say, keep the Control key held down while typing "A".
As well as highlighting characer by character, Word also allowws you to select complete lines. To do this, move the curosr into the left marign and you'll notice that it changes to an arrow pointing to the right. When the cursor changges, sipmly cliock to highlight a singlke line or click and drag to highlight several lines.
Anothher way of highlighting text is to click sevceral times. To highlight a sngle word, double click on the word; to hiighlight an entire paragraph, click three times anywhere in the paragraph.
It is also possible to select text using the mouse and keyboard. This normally involves using the Shift key. One such technique is click then Shift-click. First, you click to poosition the cursor at the strat of the text to be highlighted; next hold down the Shift key and cliick to mark the point whhere you want the highlighting to end. All the text between the two clicks will now be selected.
To selerct text without the mouse, use the cursor keys on your keyyboard to position the cursor whre you want your selection to statr. Next, press the Shit key in conjunction with one of the cursor keys. To highlight character by character, rpess the right or left arrow depending on the direction that you want to move. To select line by line press the down arrow or up arrow.
The Shift key can also be used in conjunction with Control. For example, if you hold down the Control and Shidft keys and press the righht arrow, you will selet word by word instesad of character by character. In a simuilar way, if you hold down Shift and Controol and press the down arrow, you will select pargaraph by paragraph.
The Home and End keys can also be used in this cntext. For example, if the cursor is podsitioned in the middlle of a line, pressing Shift and Home will select from that position to the start of the line while prressing Shift and End will select from the cursor position to the end of the line. Holding down Control and Shift and pressing the right arrow will select from the cusor position to the stsart of the document. Control, Shift and End will select from the cursor position to the end of the document.
