[vip_students] Word Tutorial:Lesson 8, Part 2,Selecting and Replacing Text
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- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 09:59:28 +0100
Selecting and Replacing Text
Introduction:
When you want to edit more than one character at a time, you must select
them first. Many other editing and formatting techniques, such as formatting
text, also require that you select the text you want to modify. Actually,
there are probably hundreds of reasons to select text in Word, so this is a
task you have to learn.
(Open up the file we worked on in the previous lesson and go to the
paragraphs of text you have written in there)
Note: If you haven't saved the previous document, write into a blank
document some paragraphs and we can use this.
1. Place the insertion point in front of the words "Jaws, window eyes and
hal are screen reader programs " in the first sentence of the paragraph .
Note: You should have the arrow key just positioned on the word "jaws" in
order to begin selecting.
(Begin sample text)
To All Staff,
Jaws, window eyes and hal are screen reader programs which vision impaired
persons use to navigate the screens of computers and operate them. These
software packages produce synthesized speech which is outputted to the user
via a set of speakers or headphones.
Zoomtext, Supernova and magic are magnification packages which enlarge the
screens of a PC for a user who has diminished sight to read what is on
their monitors and so successfully operate the PC.
(End of sample text)
*. Click and hold the left mouse button and drag the mouse across the words
"Jaws, window eyes and hal are screen reader programs " .
When you're done (the words should be highlighted),
2. release the left mouse button .
*. Selecting text with the mouse can be a little tricky at first, especially
if you don't have much experience using the mouse. While text is selected,
anything you type will delete the existing selected text and replace it with
the new text.
To deselect text,;
*. point the mouse and click anywhere in the document .
To replace text:
1. select the text you want to replace, then type the new text to replace it
.
2. Double-click the word Zoomtext.
Note: Double-clicking a single word is a quick way of selecting that
particular piece of text.
3. Type over the word Zoomtext" the word lunar.
*. The word "lunar" replaces the word "Zoomtext."
4. Use the mouse to place the pointer to the very far left of the line TO:
All Staff , until the pointer changes to a arrow.
5. click the mouse button and your line is selected..
Note: Positioning the pointer to the left of a line and then clicking
selects the entire line, as shown in Figure 1-19 .
6. Click anywhere in the document to deselect the text .
*. The line TO: All Staff is no longer selected.
Word 2003 can even select more than one bit of text at a time;
1. Simply press and hold down the Ctrl key as you use the mouse to select
the blocks of text using the techniques shown previously along with the
control key.
2. Select the line TO: All Staff .
3. Now you can select additional blocks of text by holding down the Ctrl key
then clicking with the mouse on the next line.
4. Hold down the Ctrl key as you select the line RE: jaws, window eyes and
hal.
You've just selected two separate blocks of text.
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QUICK REFERENCE
TO SELECT TEXT:
MOVE THE INSERTION POINT TO THE BEGINNING OR END OF THE TEXT YOU WANT TO
SELECT.
CLICK AND HOLD THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON AND DRAG THE INSERTION POINT ACROSS THE
TEXT, THEN RELEASE THE MOUSE BUTTON ONCE THE TEXT IS SELECTED.
TO SELECT MULTIPLE BLOCKS OF TEXT:
SELECT THE FIRST BLOCK OF TEXT.
HOLD DOWN THE CTRL KEY AS YOU SELECT THE REMAINING BLOCK'S) OF TEXT.
Keyboard users remember for every mouse action in selection there are
keyboard equivalents.
End of lesson 8.
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