Selecting Text to Bold, Italicize, and Underline
You select a portion of text in order to perform some operation on it. You can then delete, replace, copy, move, or format it. The Selection Bar is located to the left of the document window. When you put your mouse pointer, which is a left pointing arrow in that area, the arrow swings to the right. The following table explains how to select various blocks of text.
To Select this... Do this...
Word Double click anywhere on the word.
Line Click right-pointing arrow in the selection bar to left of line.
Sentence anywhere in sentence.
Paragraph Double-click the right-pointing arrow in the selection bar to the left of the paragraph, or triple-click in paragraph.
A block of text of any size Click at one end of the block and shift-click at the other end of the block. Or click at one end of block and drag to the other end of the block.
Entire document Press < Ctrl + A> or hold down the Ctrl key and click in the selection bar.
And to... Do this...
Deselect text Click anywhere outside the selection.
Extend a selection Shift-click an additional block. For example, if you have selected a paragraph and you shift-click on another paragraph, it will be added to the selection.
Copy and Paste Text
You can copy selected text from one place to another with the Copy and Paste commands or with the Drag and Drop procedure. You can move selected text from one place to another with the Cut and Paste commands, and with the Drag and Drop procedure. These commands and procedures are described below.
Cut - The Cut command extracts the selected text and puts it on the Clipboard (a temporary storage area). The contents of the Clipboard are overwritten with each copy or cut.
Copy - The Copy command puts a copy of the selected text on the Clipboard.
Paste - The Paste command inserts the Clipboard's contents at the insertion point. Existing text moves to accommodate pasted text. If text is selected, it is replaced by the pasted text.
Drag and Drop - This procedure does not involve the Clipboard and works best when moving text a short distance. To move text, select the text and drag it to its new location. To copy text; hold down the key while you drag the text.
Check the Spelling
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Word has a built-in spelling checker. You can have Word check a selected portion of your document (one word, a paragraph, etc.) or the entire document. If you select text before starting the spelling checker, Word checks the selection, then asks whether it should stop or check the rest of the document. To check the entire document, move the insertion point to the top of the document ( Ctrl + Home) before you select the spelling checker.