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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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