Selecting Text

Author-it's Editor works like most word processors. When you work with text, you'll need to select blocks of it, before you can apply formatting styles, delete or copy. There are several ways of selecting text.

To Select A Continuous Range of Text Using the Mouse:

To select:	Do this:
A word	Double-click the word.
Any amount of text	Drag your mouse over the text.
A large block of text	Click at the beginning of the selection, scroll to the end of the selection, hold the SHIFT key down and click.

To Select A Continuous Range of Text Using the Keyboard:

To select:	Use the keyboard:
One character to the left of the cursor	SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
One character to the right of the cursor	SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
To the beginning of a word	CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
To the end of a word	CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
To the beginning of a line	SHIFT+HOME
To the end of a line	SHIFT+END
One line up	SHIFT+UP ARROW
One line down	SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
To select the entire document	CTRL+A

Selecting Text

To Select A Continuous Range of Text Using the Mouse:

To select:

Do this:

To Select A Continuous Range of Text Using the Keyboard:

To select:

Use the keyboard:

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