While clicking and dragging is useful for selecting blocks of text, it can be cumbersome for finer selections, such as selecting individual characters or text that extends across multiple screens.

If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word (or any other word processor), it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for your ...

Windows 11 is hardly new anymore. Windows 10 support officially ends on Oct. 14 though, so you're going to want to make sure ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

When you’re composing a Microsoft Word document, keyboard shortcuts, the use of a series of keys to perform specific actions, can be a huge help to save you time and make things more convenient. Keep ...

Microsoft Word has many keyboard shortcuts that you can use to write, edit, and format documents quickly and easily. These Word keyboard shortcuts let you perform common tasks like saving, inserting ...

There are many ways to select Word text - 15 at least! Susan Harkins shares her favorite selection methods. Besides entering text, selecting text is probably the most common task for most Word users.

Highlighting text in applications like Microsoft Word or your email program is what allows you to delete, format, copy and move large amounts of text all at once. If you type on a daily basis ...

If you're constantly losing your place or having to start from nearly the beginning of text selection processes because your mouse twitches or your cursor gets away from you, stop getting "dragged" ...

While OneNote is great for use on a tablet, its desktop app is just as handy. In this article, I'll run through the essential ...

There are numerous occasions when I felt like deleting a whole column from a text. One can, go to each line and delete the redundant piece of text, but this process can become a bit jarring if you ...

When you set type in Adobe Photoshop as part of an informational graphic, image montage or other project for your business, you may need to create a selection equal in size and shape to the text on ...