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Selecting Text

              Selecting text in a document involves highlighting a portion of text by clicking and dragging the mouse
              cursor over it, or by using keyboard shortcuts. This action typically changes the background colour of the
              selected text to indicate that it is selected. After selecting the text, you can perform various operations such
              as copying, cutting, pasting, formatting, or deleting the highlighted text.

              Selection Criteria

              There are different ways of selecting text, which are as follows:

                 Items to Select                   By Mouse                                By Keyboard

               Character            Drag the mouse over the character.       Press the ‘Shift+Left/Right’ arrow keys
                                                                             from the beginning of a character.

               Word                 Double-click anywhere on the word or     Press the ‘Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right’ arrow
                                    drag the mouse over the word.            keys from the end/ beginning of the
                                                                             character.

               Line                 Click on the beginning of the line and   Press the ‘Shift+End’ keys over the line
                                    drag up to the required area of the line   from the beginning of character.
                                    or click three times anywhere on the line.

               Paragraph            Click four times anywhere on a           Press the ‘Ctrl+Shift+Down/Up’ arrow
                                    paragraph.                               keys from the beginning of the character.
               Entire Document      Click on the beginning of the document  Press the ‘Ctrl+A’ keys.
                                    and drag till the end.

               Rectangular Areas    Alt+drag over the area.                  Press the ‘Ctrl+Shift+F8’ then press the
                                                                             ‘Shift+Arrow Keys’ from the beginning of
                                                                             the character.


              To deselect the text, move the mouse pointer to an unselected location and click there.

              Selecting Non-Consecutive Text
              Non-consecutive text refers to pieces of text that are not adjacent to each other in a document. We can select
              the non-consecutive text using a mouse or keyboard as well.
              To select non-consecutive text with the keyboard:

              Step 1:   Select the first instance of the text using the Shift + Arrow keys.
              Step 2:  Press the Shift + F8 key, which puts the Writer into Adding selection mode. You can check the
                      mode from the Status bar.
              Step 3:  Use the arrow keys to move to the next instance of the text which is to be selected.

              Step 4:   While holding the Shift key, select the text.
              Step 5:  Keep on repeating the steps as required.









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