SECTION 1
Lesson 1.3: Creating and Selecting Text

   

 

 

You can only get good at selecting text by practicing, so let’s get started!

 

1.

Open Microsoft Office Word 2003.

 

 

2.

Click the File menu and click Open. Find your sample files folder. Open the Selecting Text document.

 

 

3.

Using your mouse, select the first two lines. Click the Bold button on the Standard toolbar.

 

 

4.

Place your cursor after the line: Here is the second sentence in our paragraph. Press the Shift + Up arrow  keys to see what happens.

 

 

5.

Click to place your cursor at the end of the line: Here is the second sentence in our paragraph. Press Shift + Home.

 

 

6.

Now, click to place your cursor after the word accumsan in the paragraph that starts with “We can also select paragraphs”. Hold down the Ctrl + Shift keys and press the Up Arrow. To select the other half of the paragraph instead, press Ctrl + Shift + Down Arrow.

 

 

7.

Find the paragraph that starts with: What about just words or letters?

Click to place your cursor just before the question mark in that sentence.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow. (You can also press Shift + Left Arrow and press the left arrow until the word letters is selected.)

 

 

8.

Press the Delete key on your keyboard.

 

 

9.

Select the first line of the last paragraph (This is the last paragraph we need to select). Hold down the Ctrl key and select the last line of this paragraph (We need to select this line too).

 

 

10.

Press the Insert key on your keyboard.

Click to place your cursor at the very beginning of the last line on the page (This is text we don’t need). Type: I am using overtype to change text easily.