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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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