I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence, and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

F8 - once to select a word, twice to select a sentence and thrice to select a
paragraph.
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"TAP" wrote:

I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence, and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

Double-click to select a word, Ctrl+click to select a sentence (more or
less). Triple-click (or double-click in the left margin) to select a
paragraph. All these shortcuts are listed in Word's Help under "Keyboard
shortcuts."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"TAP" wrote in message
...
I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence, and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

Thank you....so simple. Got one more dumb question, when I press the F8, how
do you stop it from highlighting the text?

"TAP" wrote:

I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence, and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

Thank you for responding, but I was looking for a keyboard shortcut without
using the mouse with the clicks, I know how to do that. I did find out the
F8 is the key to use in doing all 3 that I needed to find out about.
Unfortunately, I'm still trying to turn on the select mode once it's turned
on. Thanks again for responding !

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Double-click to select a word, Ctrl+click to select a sentence (more or
less). Triple-click (or double-click in the left margin) to select a
paragraph. All these shortcuts are listed in Word's Help under "Keyboard
shortcuts."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"TAP" wrote in message
...
I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence, and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

Thank you so much for responding, how do you turn off the F8 once it's been
turned on to select? It's a dumb question, but for the life of me, I can't
figure it out.

"Carol" wrote:

F8 - once to select a word, twice to select a sentence and thrice to select a
paragraph.
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"TAP" wrote:

I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence, and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

f8 turns on extended selection, if you don't want to do that, control shift
right and left arrows select by word and shift right arrow select by
letter.
"TAP" wrote in message
...
Thank you for responding, but I was looking for a keyboard shortcut
without
using the mouse with the clicks, I know how to do that. I did find out
the
F8 is the key to use in doing all 3 that I needed to find out about.
Unfortunately, I'm still trying to turn on the select mode once it's
turned
on. Thanks again for responding !

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Double-click to select a word, Ctrl+click to select a sentence (more or
less). Triple-click (or double-click in the left margin) to select a
paragraph. All these shortcuts are listed in Word's Help under "Keyboard
shortcuts."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"TAP" wrote in message
...
I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I
can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence,
and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

Click anywhere else in the document.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


TAP wrote:
Thank you so much for responding, how do you turn off the F8 once
it's been turned on to select? It's a dumb question, but for the
life of me, I can't figure it out.

"Carol" wrote:

F8 - once to select a word, twice to select a sentence and thrice to
select a paragraph.
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"TAP" wrote:

I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts.
I can't find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current
sentence, and selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me.
TAP

Hi Graham

Graham Mayor wrote:
Click anywhere else in the document.

I don't think TAP wants to use his mouse too much (wouldn't need to
substitute left-click with F8 ;-)). ESC would probably be "the" shortcut
here.

Greetinx
Rober
--- heavy mouse user!
--
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ESC doesn't work for me?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote:
Hi Graham

Graham Mayor wrote:
Click anywhere else in the document.

I don't think TAP wants to use his mouse too much (wouldn't need to
substitute left-click with F8 ;-)). ESC would probably be "the"
shortcut here.

Greetinx
Rober
--- heavy mouse user!

Graham Mayor wrote:
ESC doesn't work for me?

Ahh, right (caught me!). Right or left arrow comes closest, I think.

Sorry 'bout that!
Robert
--
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D'oh! I enter text with the keyboard and edit with the mouse, so I just
wasn't thinking!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"TAP" wrote in message
...
Thank you for responding, but I was looking for a keyboard shortcut
without
using the mouse with the clicks, I know how to do that. I did find out
the
F8 is the key to use in doing all 3 that I needed to find out about.
Unfortunately, I'm still trying to turn on the select mode once it's
turned
on. Thanks again for responding !

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Double-click to select a word, Ctrl+click to select a sentence (more or
less). Triple-click (or double-click in the left margin) to select a
paragraph. All these shortcuts are listed in Word's Help under "Keyboard
shortcuts."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"TAP" wrote in message
...
I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I
can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence,
and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

I cannot use the mouse as I am visually impaired so I memorize keyboard
shortcuts witch can often, to me, be faster then moving your hand back and
forth between the keyboard and mouse.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
D'oh! I enter text with the keyboard and edit with the mouse, so I just
wasn't thinking!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"TAP" wrote in message
...
Thank you for responding, but I was looking for a keyboard shortcut
without
using the mouse with the clicks, I know how to do that. I did find out
the
F8 is the key to use in doing all 3 that I needed to find out about.
Unfortunately, I'm still trying to turn on the select mode once it's
turned
on. Thanks again for responding !

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Double-click to select a word, Ctrl+click to select a sentence (more or
less). Triple-click (or double-click in the left margin) to select a
paragraph. All these shortcuts are listed in Word's Help under
"Keyboard
shortcuts."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"TAP" wrote in message
...
I've looked everywhere and found all sorts of keyboard shortcuts. I
can't
find 3, they a selecting current word, selecting current sentence,
and
selecting paragraph. Can anyone out there help me. TAP

Robert, thank you so much. I'm actually a heavy mouse user too. I'm
currently doing a computer class at Santa Ana College and it required a
keyboard shortcut assignment. I have 3 different printouts showing keyboard
shortcuts I took off of MS and none of them talks about my original question
of using the keyboard only and selecting text. Amazing. Thanks again for
reading carefully on my request and answering my question. I'll try the
escape. TAP

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Hi Graham

Graham Mayor wrote:
Click anywhere else in the document.

I don't think TAP wants to use his mouse too much (wouldn't need to
substitute left-click with F8 ;-)). ESC would probably be "the" shortcut
here.

Greetinx
Rober
--- heavy mouse user!
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word

Okay, you guys got me. I tried all of these keys and nothing works (esc or
arrow keys), any other suggestions on turning off the F8 key when it's in
select mode? TAP

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Graham Mayor wrote:
ESC doesn't work for me?

Ahh, right (caught me!). Right or left arrow comes closest, I think.

Sorry 'bout that!
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word

According to Word's Help, ESC is the correct key. It turns F8 off, but it
doesn't unselect the selected text. To do that, you have to use an arrow
key. This didn't work for me the first time I tried it, but then I couldn't
get it to not work on subsequent trials. sigh

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"TAP" wrote in message
...
Okay, you guys got me. I tried all of these keys and nothing works (esc
or
arrow keys), any other suggestions on turning off the F8 key when it's in
select mode? TAP

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Graham Mayor wrote:
ESC doesn't work for me?

Ahh, right (caught me!). Right or left arrow comes closest, I think.

Sorry 'bout that!
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS
\ / | MVP
X Against HTML | for
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word

TAP wrote:
Robert, thank you so much. I'm actually a heavy mouse user too. I'm
currently doing a computer class at Santa Ana College and it required a
keyboard shortcut assignment. I have 3 different printouts showing keyboard
shortcuts I took off of MS and none of them talks about my original question
of using the keyboard only and selecting text. Amazing. Thanks again for
reading carefully on my request and answering my question. I'll try the
escape. TAP

Your welcome! FWIW, for selecting (portions of) text, I mainly use SHIFT
+ the arrow keys in combination with HOME, END, CTRL, etc.

Greetinx
Robert
--
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