Check Out The Quick And Smart Way To Select Text In Microsoft Word When it comes to writing content in a Microsoft Word document, selecting is probably the next most important task, let alone reading it. We usually select, copy, move, and delete the text format in it.
Almost all editing and formatting work starts with selecting something. Most of the users click on the mouse to select a text or highlight a part and drag it to the part containing the text.
By doing this, sometimes the mouse gets out of control from the part it is trying to move to. The best and smartest solution to this problem is to use keyboard shortcuts. Today we are giving you some tips to select text in Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
Shift [Shift] + Directional i.e. Arrow keys
To select a letter or letter, i.e. a line, press the shift [Shift] key and simultaneously press the right, left, down, or up keys.
Hold the Shift key and the Up or Down key to select the top or bottom part of the screen at once.
Press Shift + Home to select all content from your current position to the beginning of that line or letter at once.
To select from the current position on a line to the last letter of that line, press the Shift key and the End key.
Click the beginning of the text you want to select with the mouse and then click the end while holding down the shift key.
Easy Selection Tricks
Even better than the shift key, but not many people know about the selection trick is the F8 [F8] function key, which turns on selection mode and you don’t have to hold down the shift key when highlighting or selecting in a Word document. To adopt this method do the following;
1. First, go to the beginning of the part you want to select.
2. Now press the F8 function key once.
3. Look at the Word status bar in the lower left corner to expand the selection, But don’t expect anything to flash or pop up.
4. Move around the part you want to select with the help of the keyboard or mouse. You don’t need to hold the Select key while doing this.
5. You can do whatever you want in the selected part like formatting, cutting, and copying. This extended selection mode closes itself after you have done something. To clear the highlight, you just need to move around any part. If you want to turn off this mode without doing anything, you just need to press Esc [Esc] button.
Simultaneous use of keyboard shortcuts and mouse
To select a word you are currently using, move the mouse over it and double-click.
To select the paragraph you are currently in, click on it three times.
To select not only a line but also a sentence, hold down the control button and click on any part of the sentence.
Click on the beginning of the block to select the vertical part of the text. Then click the other side of the block a second time while pressing the shift key. This trick is very useful if you are trying to copy a column from a list in a table.
Using the selection bar
Have you ever used the selection bar in Word? You may just remember it as the blank section on the left side of your Word document. To find the selection bar, move the mouse to the left of the text until it changes from an uppercase ‘I’ to a white arrow. Then do the following to use the selection bar:
Click once to highlight a line.
To select two or more lines, click and move the mouse up and down.
Double-click to select an entire paragraph.
Click three times to highlight the entire document. This trick is especially useful for overall changes to the document, such as changing the font.
How to select many things at once?
To select more than one material ie especially two different ie unrelated materials:
1. Select the first ingredient.
2. Select any other content by holding down the control button. Select and Move: Press Alt+Shift+Up or Alt+Shift+Down simultaneously to select a paragraph and move it around.