Hold down the CTRL button first, continuing to hold when you press the ‘a’ key. Most of you will have heard of CTRL + c and CTRL + v to copy and paste text but you can also use the shortcut ‘CTRL + a’ to select all of the text in a document. You will see that both paragraphs have been selected. Press and hold the CTRL button and drag the cursor from the start to the end of the second paragraph. Then move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph you wish to highlight but don’t click the mouse button. Move the cursor to the beginning of the first paragraph and use Tip 1 or Tip 2 to highlight it. This is one of the few processes where a drag of the mouse is required – you have been warned…

non-contiguous) in a sentence or two individual paragraphs from a whole document you can use a combination of the CTRL key and the mouse. If you need to select two or more words that aren’t together (i.e. You can then triple-click to highlight the whole paragraph. Double-click at the start of a sentence to select the first word. You can perform a similar function to Tip 2 with the left mouse button. Just remember to press ESC when you’ve finished editing to exit the Extended Selection Mode. You can highlight the whole first paragraph with another push and then the entire document after that. Press it again and you’ll find the whole first sentence is selected. Press it again and you’ll notice the first word is highlighted. Move to the beginning of the text you wish to highlight and press F8. Both of these methods avoid the hazardous drag.Īnother great selection tip is incremental use of the F8 key. Left-click again and the area will be selected. Then hold down SHIFT and move your cursor to the end of the required area. If you absolutely have to use your mouse you can start in the same way by moving the cursor to the beginning of the required area. You can then edit as if you’d selected it with a drag of the mouse. Hold down the SHIFT key and use the down cursor key or the Pg Dn key to highlight the desired area. To use the keyboard, move the cursor to the beginning of the area you wish to select. Next thing you know you’ve selected all of your work and somehow managed to delete it! How can you avoid this? The key is not to drag your mouse and, where possible, use keyboard shortcuts.

We all know how frustrating it can be when all you want to do is highlight a small selection of text and suddenly the mouse cursor shoots off to the edge of the screen.

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