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Items to Select                   By Mouse                                By Keyboard

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

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


                  Line                Click on the beginning of the line and   Press ‘Shift+End’ keys over the line from
                                      drag up to the required area of the line  the beginning of character.
                                      or click three times anywhere on the
                                      line.
                  Paragraph           Click four times anywhere on a           Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Down/Up’ arrow keys from
                                      paragraph.                               the beginning of the character.
                  Entire              Click on the beginning of the document  Press ‘Ctrl+A’ keys.
                  Document            and drag till the end.

                  Rectangular         Alt+drag over the area.                  Press ‘Alt+Shift+Arrow Keys’ and Arrow
                  Areas                                                        key from the beginning of the character.


                 Selecting Non-Consecutive Text


                 It enables the user to select non-consecutive text from the document. In Writer, it is possible to select non-
                 consecutive/non-continuous word/character through keyboard and mouse. To do so with keyboard:
                 Step 1:  Select the first part of any text and then press the ‘Shift + F8’ key which puts the Writer into ‘Adding
                         Selection’ mode.

                 Step 2:  Use the arrow key to move to the other part of the text which is to be selected.
                 Step 3:  While holding the ‘Shift’ key, select the next part of the text.

                 Step 4:  Press the ‘Esc’ key to exit from this mode.






















                 To Select Non-Consecutive Text with Mouse:
                 Step 1:  Select the first part of any text.

                 Step 2:  Hold down the ‘Ctrl’ key and then keep on selecting the next part of the text.



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