Microsoft Office Tips & Tricks

Check here each month for tips and tricks to help make using Microsoft Office easier and faster.

Selecting Text

Tired of dragging the mouse to select text in a document? To select the entire text, from anywhere in the document, press CTRL+A. To select a whole paragraph, triple click the left mouse button. To select just one word, double click on the word.

Here is a simple method of selecting any amount of text without dragging the mouse. Position the I-Beam pointer where you want to begin selecting text and click the left mouse button. Click the Down Scroll arrow (if necessary) moving to the location in the document whre you want to end the selection. Hold the Shift Key down and click the left mouse button again. Two important things about this procedure; you must use the Down Scroll arrow to scroll the document, and you must hold the shift key down first and release it AFTER you click the mouse.

If you are not normally using the right mouse button while working with a document, try it sometime. It can save you mouse movement and time. Some things you will find are:

• Cut, Copy, Paste

• Paragraph Formatting

• Bullets and Numbering

John Kahland
South Padre Office Center