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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.

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 ...

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 ...

Create a text form field that lets you enter text once and have it appear automatically elsewhere in the document, such as the date shown in the file's header. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

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Some few of us are perfect writers and typists, even applying formatting as we go along; the rest of us have to go back and select text to change it. Everybody knows the very basics: Double-click to ...

If you frequently print selected text in Word 2002 or Word 2003, you can eliminate having to bring up the Print menu for each copy you print. You simply create a macro and assign it to a keyboard ...

Basic sorting in Word 2013 is a breeze: Essentially, it’s just select a list of text, click the Sort button, and then choose Ascending or Descending order. However, it gets a bit more complex when ...

Most people select text without even thinking about it: drag and they’re done. But with a few techniques under your belt, you can master this mundane chore, going beyond a mere drag or double-click.