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Basic Computer Skills

Notes Using the Mouse

To Select Do This

A word Double-click the word.

A graphics Click the graphic.

A line of text Click in the selection bar to the left of the line

Multiple lines of text Click in the selection bar in the direction of the
lines you want to select.

A sentence Hold on Ctrl, and click in the sentence you want
to select.

A paragraph Double-click in the selection bar to the left of
the paragraph.

Multiple paragraphsDrag in the selection bar in the direction of the paragraphs you want
to select.

Any item or amount of textClick where you want the selection to begin. Then hold down
Shift, and click where you want the selection to end.

An entire document Triple-click in the selection bar.
A vertical block of text Hold down Alt, click the mouse button, and drag.

With the Keyboard

To Select Press

One character to the right Shift + right-arrow key

One character to the left Shift + left-arrow key

To the end of a word Ctrl + Shift + right-arrow key

To the beginning of a word Ctrl + Shift + left-arrow key
To the end of a line Shift + End

To the beginning of a line Shift + Home

To the end of the document Ctrl + Shift + End

The whole document Ctrl + A

7.4.7 Editing Text
When you type in the text, you are quite likely to make mistakes. Corrections of these
mistakes are called “editing”. Editing text is an essential feature of a word processing
package. Word makes it easy to add a new thought, change a word, or replace one phrase
with another.

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