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Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.
D'oh, that's not right! You don't need to Shift while dragging. You
just need to Shift before you click the endpoint. when you get there by some means other than dragging. On Feb 22, 12:11*pm, grammatim wrote: 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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