Tips For Making Text Selections In Microsoft Word
Before you can do anything to your text in the way of formatting in Microsoft Word 2007, you need to highlight it. Highlighting a piece of text is a way of telling Word that you want to work only with the selected text. (Highlighting is also known as selecting.)
The simplest way of selecting text is to position the cursor where you want the selection to start, click and hold the mouse button down and drag to the position where you want to end the selection. When doing so, you don’t have to drag across every single line that you want to highlight. It’s sufficient for you to move the cursor in a straight line from the start to the finish. To deselect your text and get rid of the selection, click anywhere in your text. The blinking text cursor will then reappear.
Select All
Another simple way of highlighting text is to select the entire document. This is done with the Select All command. In Microsoft Word 2007 the Select All command is found in the Editing group of the Home Tab of the Ribbon. Click to obtain the drop-down menu; click on Select and then choose Select All. The Select All command is found in lots of programs and lots of environments. It can also be accessed via the keyboard using Control-a: that is to say, hold down the Control key while typing the letter “a”.
Highlighting lines
Another simple way of highlighting text is to select the entire document. This is done with the Select All command. In Microsoft Word 2007 the Select All command is found in the Editing group of the Home Tab of the Ribbon. Click to obtain the drop-down menu; click on Select and then choose Select All. The Select All command is found in lots of programs and lots of environments. It can also be accessed via the keyboard using Control-a: that is to say, hold down the Control key while typing the letter “a”.
Multiple clicks
Another simple way of highlighting text is to select the entire document. This is done with the Select All command. In Microsoft Word 2007 the Select All command is found in the Editing group of the Home Tab of the Ribbon. Click to obtain the drop-down menu; click on Select and then choose Select All. The Select All command is found in lots of programs and lots of environments. It can also be accessed via the keyboard using Control-a: that is to say, hold down the Control key while typing the letter “a”.
The writer of this article is a developer and trainer with an independent computer training company offering Microsoft Word 2007 Classes, as well as Word VBA training at their central London training centre.
