Summary
You must first pick the text before you may format it, add a link to it, or remove it from the page. You will learn how to choose certain text passages or all of the text in Word.
How to In Word, Select Every Text
With menu choices, your mouse or trackpad, keyboard shortcuts, and your Microsoft Word document, you may quickly select all of the text.
Use the Shortcut Keyboard
Using Windows’ Ctrl + A keyboard shortcut (or Mac’s Command + A keyboard shortcut) is the fastest method to select all text in Word.
Make Use of a Mouse or Trackpad
You may also use your mouse or trackpad to select all of the text in your document if you choose not to utilize keyboard shortcuts.
Position the cursor before to the document’s first word, depress the mouse button or use the trackpad, then drag the pointer through the last word. When you release, every text will be highlighted, indicating that it has been chosen.
Make Use of the Menu Selections
Lastly, you may use these built-in menu choices to select all text:
On Windows, choose choose All from the Editing group’s Select menu by opening the Home tab.
On Mac, use the menu bar to get to Edit > Select All.
How to Select Specific Text in Word
You also have a few options if you want to choose only a specific section of the text in your Word document rather than the whole thing. This is perfect if you want to add a hyperlink to a line or put a word in tiny capitals.
Choosing a word is as simple as dragging your mouse over it. Position the cursor before to the first letter, grasp the mouse button or trackpad, drag the pointer through the last letter, and then let go.
Double-clicking the word will do this more quickly.
Choose Several Words
If many words are next to one another, selecting multiple words is as simple as dragging across each one. You may, however, choose to choose more than one term at various places throughout the page.
Using the aforementioned procedure, choose the first word. Then, hold down the Ctrl or Command key and choose the second word.
Choose a Line of Text
Similar to selecting a word, you may pick a line of text by using your mouse or trackpad to drag from the first word to the last.
Use Shift + Down arrow after placing your cursor at the beginning of the line for a quicker method. This Mac and Windows keyboard shortcut is compatible.
Choose Several Lines
Similar to words, you can drag along numerous lines to choose them, but what happens if they are not next to each other?
Here, pick the first line using one of the aforementioned methods, then click at the beginning of the second line while holding down Ctrl or Command.
Pick a Paragraph
You may also drag across a paragraph to choose it, as you may have guessed. Drag the paragraph’s starting word through its final word, then let go.
To expedite the process, position your cursor at the beginning of the paragraph and use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + Shift + Down arrow for Windows or Command + Shift + Down arrow for Mac.
Choose Several Paragraphs
You may drag across the paragraphs like words and lines to choose several paragraphs. For non-adjacent paragraphs, on the other hand, you’ll use a mix of techniques.
Using one of the methods above, select the first paragraph, hold down the Ctrl or Command key, and drag across the second paragraph.
There are many options available to you in Word for selecting all text, a specific section of it, or a single word. Whatever works best for you at the moment may be used.
