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 ...

Let’s say that you have selected a text and want to replace it with new words. For that, you do not need to press the Backspace or Delete button after selecting the text in order to remove it. Instead ...

If you frequently print selected text in Word 2002 or Word 2003, you can eliminate having to bring up the Print menu for each copy you print. You simply create a macro and assign it to a keyboard ...

How to select non-contiguous text in a Google Doc Your email has been sent Google Docs, which is part of Google Workspace, supports non-contiguous text selection, which means you may select multiple ...

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 ...

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'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" ...

Word 2007 includes many powerful tools for creating unique documents using much more than simple text customization. If you use images in your Word documents, you have a number of options for how they ...

If you cannot select or highlight text in a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader on a Windows PC, then this post will be able to help you resolve the issue. If you can’t select text in a PDF, it might be the ...

Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is ...

A lot of people overlook TextEdit’s abilities as a word processor—in rich text mode, it’s actually not a bad tool for most word processing tasks. There is, however, one apparent omission: no way to ...