While clicking and dragging is useful for selecting blocks of text, it can be cumbersome for finer selections, such as selecting individual characters or text that extends across multiple screens.

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If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word (or any other word processor), it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for your ...

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Microsoft Word has many keyboard shortcuts that you can use to write, edit, and format documents quickly and easily. These Word keyboard shortcuts let you perform common tasks like saving, inserting ...

There are many ways to select Word text - 15 at least! Susan Harkins shares her favorite selection methods. Besides entering text, selecting text is probably the most common task for most Word users.

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Do you want to format or delete text from your document? Do you want to add a link to your text or rewrite only a certain portion? Then, you may have to select text in the Word document. This tutorial ...

When you’re composing a Microsoft Word document, keyboard shortcuts, the use of a series of keys to perform specific actions, can be a huge help to save you time and make things more convenient. Keep ...

Are you tired of all the right-clicking just to access simple commands like cut, copy, and paste? Sure, it’s not super labor-intensive, but it can get really annoying after a while when you’re ...

There are numerous occasions when I felt like deleting a whole column from a text. One can, go to each line and delete the redundant piece of text, but this process can become a bit jarring if you ...