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Try + + or + + to select and move the current paragraph (or table row). To make changes to an entire document or file, press + A to Select All. Perform the action to finish working with the highlighted area.
Press and hold and select each of the other items you want to highlight (use any of the techniques listed above).To select more than one item such as 2 different non-contiguous (unrelated) items use : Triple-click (can you do it?) to highlight the entire document (great for overall changes such as font formatting).Double-click to select the whole paragraph.Click and drag to select multiple lines.Click once to highlight an entire line.Selection tricks to try with the selection bar: To locate the selection bar area, move your mouse to the left of the text until it changes from an upper case “I” to a white arrow. Have you ever used the selection bar? Just think of this as the left margin of your Word document. Selecting Tricks in Word with the Selection Bar Hint: This is a handy trick when you only want to copy one column of a tabular list. Then, hold down the key and click a second time at the opposite end of the block. To select a vertical block of text, click at the start of the block.To select a sentence (not just a line), hold down and click once in any place within the sentence.