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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight
an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Holding Shift and the down arrow key will allows you to select line by line
-- Carrie "Highlighter" wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Click at the start. Hold the shift key and click at the end.
Ctr+a selects the current story range. AFAIK, there is no direct shortcut to select all of the text on the current page. You could use a macro something like this: Sub SelectWholePage() ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\Page").Range.Select End Sub Highlighter wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
For something longer, click at the start, use the scroll bar to make
the endpoint visible (even many pages away), and Shift-Click at the endpoint. (Warning: there's an option that causes the cursor to move when you scroll to a new view. Be sure that's not checked.) On Feb 20, 1:43*pm, Sninkle wrote: Holding Shift and the down arrow key will allows you to select line by line -- Carrie "Highlighter" wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you.- |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times
to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Highlighter" wrote in message ... Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
It's even more flexible than that. Press F8 once to turn on extended
selection mode (or double-click the letters EXT in the status bar in Word 2003 or earlier). Then you can do any of these: - Use the scroll bar or the mouse wheel to bring the end of the desired selection into view and left-click there. If you aren't happy with the selected spot, click again somewhere else. You can also use the arrow and Page Up/Down keys. Press the Esc key to get out of extended mode. - Type any character. The end of the selection will jump to the next occurrence of that character. Press it again, multiple times, until you get to the desired occurrence, then press Esc. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. JoAnn Paules wrote: Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section. "Highlighter" wrote in message ... Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
I think you must be thinking of WordPerfect.
Word does have an extend feature (see EXT in the status bar), but since you have to use the mouse or press a cumbersome two or three key shortcut to invoke it and because Word does not allow users to navigate to the top or bottom of a page, using EXT would not be the two key process you remember. PamC Highlighter wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200902/1 |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Ooh - nice trick. :-)
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... It's even more flexible than that. Press F8 once to turn on extended selection mode (or double-click the letters EXT in the status bar in Word 2003 or earlier). Then you can do any of these: - Use the scroll bar or the mouse wheel to bring the end of the desired selection into view and left-click there. If you aren't happy with the selected spot, click again somewhere else. You can also use the arrow and Page Up/Down keys. Press the Esc key to get out of extended mode. - Type any character. The end of the selection will jump to the next occurrence of that character. Press it again, multiple times, until you get to the desired occurrence, then press Esc. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. JoAnn Paules wrote: Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section. "Highlighter" wrote in message ... Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Than you for your reply. No, it is indeed Microsoft Word, and a few people
have kindly reminded me of variations in the old technique. "Highlighter" "PamC via OfficeKB.com" wrote: I think you must be thinking of WordPerfect. Word does have an extend feature (see EXT in the status bar), but since you have to use the mouse or press a cumbersome two or three key shortcut to invoke it and because Word does not allow users to navigate to the top or bottom of a page, using EXT would not be the two key process you remember. PamC Highlighter wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200902/1 |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Thank you for your kind reply. That was pretty much it, as I recall, except
that I also can scroll down with the mouse and click the end point. "Highlighter". "Sninkle" wrote: Holding Shift and the down arrow key will allows you to select line by line -- Carrie "Highlighter" wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Thank you very much for your kind reply. Sounds good and vaguely familiar.
Been a while since I needed this convenience, hence my lack of recollection. "Highlighter" "grammatim" wrote: For something longer, click at the start, use the scroll bar to make the endpoint visible (even many pages away), and Shift-Click at the endpoint. (Warning: there's an option that causes the cursor to move when you scroll to a new view. Be sure that's not checked.) On Feb 20, 1:43 pm, Sninkle wrote: Holding Shift and the down arrow key will allows you to select line by line -- Carrie "Highlighter" wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you.- |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Thank you for your kind and prompt reply. Sounds familiar and as simple as I
want. Been a long while since I needed this convenience. "Highlighter" "Greg Maxey" wrote: Click at the start. Hold the shift key and click at the end. Ctr+a selects the current story range. AFAIK, there is no direct shortcut to select all of the text on the current page. You could use a macro something like this: Sub SelectWholePage() ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\Page").Range.Select End Sub Highlighter wrote: Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Thank you for your kind reply. Technique is a bit more complicated than I
remember. Other replies were the more familiar hold shift from start point to end point, click at the endpoint and go from there. Been a while since I needed the convenience of that move. I appreciate your help. "Highlighter" "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Highlighter" wrote in message ... Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Thank you for your kind reply. If you have seen the other posts, the simple
one that I needed was to left click the start point with the mouse, holding down "Shift", go to the end of the selection (scroll bar, mouse wheel or down-arrow) and left click the mouse again. I did record your answer as a viable alternative, but I wonder if the cut/paste options would work as well as the type-any-character option that you suggested, as a shorter step to move the selected material to the desired site rather than jumping about some. I appreciate your help. "Highlighter" "Jay Freedman" wrote: It's even more flexible than that. Press F8 once to turn on extended selection mode (or double-click the letters EXT in the status bar in Word 2003 or earlier). Then you can do any of these: - Use the scroll bar or the mouse wheel to bring the end of the desired selection into view and left-click there. If you aren't happy with the selected spot, click again somewhere else. You can also use the arrow and Page Up/Down keys. Press the Esc key to get out of extended mode. - Type any character. The end of the selection will jump to the next occurrence of that character. Press it again, multiple times, until you get to the desired occurrence, then press Esc. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. JoAnn Paules wrote: Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section. "Highlighter" wrote in message ... Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you. |
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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
Note that you only need to hold down Shift if you're dragging from
starting point to ending point -- if you navigate with the scroll bars/ mouse wheel, you don't need to Shift until you're ready to click on the endpoint. On Feb 21, 11:06*pm, Highlighter wrote: Thank you for your kind reply. If you have seen the other posts, the simple one that I needed was to left click the start point with the mouse, holding down "Shift", go to the end of the selection (scroll bar, mouse wheel or down-arrow) and left click the mouse again. I did record your answer as a viable alternative, but I wonder if the cut/paste options would work as well as the type-any-character option that you suggested, as a shorter step to move the selected material to the desired site rather than jumping about some. I appreciate your help. * *"Highlighter" "Jay Freedman" wrote: It's even more flexible than that. Press F8 once to turn on extended selection mode (or double-click the letters EXT in the status bar in Word 2003 or earlier). Then you can do any of these: - Use the scroll bar or the mouse wheel to bring the end of the desired selection into view and left-click there. If you aren't happy with the selected spot, click again somewhere else. You can also use the arrow and Page Up/Down keys. Press the Esc key to get out of extended mode. - Type any character. The end of the selection will jump to the next occurrence of that character. Press it again, multiple times, until you get to the desired occurrence, then press Esc. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. JoAnn Paules wrote: Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section. "Highlighter" wrote in message ... Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you.- |
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