Select…How do you select????

One thing that I see people do, is not take advantage of all the different ways.  So here we go from small selection to the entire document:

Okay, first open Word and a document so you can give this stuff a try…if you don’t try it, you won’t remember.

Word:  Double click anywhere in the word

Line of text:  Here’s the magic.  Notice that your mouse pointer points to the left.  Move to the left margin, and notice it will flip to the right….Magic right?  Now click and the line is chosen.  If you hold the mouse button down, it will continue to select.

Sentence:  Ctrl and then click anywhere in the sentence

Paragraph:  Triple click anywhere inside the paragraph or get the magic right pointing mouse pointer and double click.

Large block of text:  One thing that I see people do when they have more than a screen’s worth of text, is they will click, and drag with their mouse, and then the screen zooms up, and then they will go back towards the top because it selected too much.  Talk about driving yourself nuts….okay here’s the secret.  Click at one end of your selection (doesn’t matter which end). Release the mouse!!!!  Now scroll to the other end, hold down the shift key and now click….you should have everything in between selected.

Entire document:  Get your magic right facing mouse pointer and triple click…or quicker, Ctrl A.

Vertical Selection:  Now here’s the one that most people don’t know, If you have a tabbed table, you can select just one column or a vertical selection.  Click here you want it to start.  Release, hold down your Alt key and then click and drag.  You know it’s working correctly when it doesn’t try to grab the entire line when you drag down.