Deleting Text Procedure
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emmanuelmutemba919Selecting text
• How to select a single letter
• How to select a word
• How to select a line of text
• How to select a paragraph
• How to select a whole document
How to select a single letter
Keyboard
Place cursor in front of letter
Hold shift down
Press right arrow key
Mouse
Place cursor before letter
Click
Drag to right
How to select a word
Keyboard
Place cursor in front of word
Press shift
Press right arrow until word is highlighted
Mouse
Place cursor before word
Click
Drag across the word
OR
Double click on the word
How to select a line of text
Keyboard
Place cursor in front of line or at end
Press up or down arrow keys
Mouse
Place cursor before line so that cursor become a arrow
Click once
How to select a paragraph
Keyboard
Place cursor in front of the paragraph
Press shift and down until paragraph is highlighted
Mouse
Place cursor before line so that cursor become a arrow
Double click
How to select a whole document
Keyboard
Place cursor in the beginning of the document
Press crtl, shift and end keys together
OR
Ctrl and A
Mouse
Triple click in the left margin
Or
Press Crtl and click in the left margin
➢ Begin inputting text by clicking within the document window and typing.
➢ Choose the font, font color, font style, font size, and line spacing (customization) If it is
not customized then the following defaults will apply to the text you type:
• Times New Roman font
• 12 point
• Black font color
• Plain font style
• Single line spacing
• Preferably the margins should also be set
How to set margins (see lesson plans that follow)
As you type the text will appear at the location of the cursor and will wrap (automatically move)
to the next line.
Pressing the return (or enter) key will end the paragraph and you can begin typing on the next
line
.
Editing text in a document
Clicking within the body of the document, you can add text.
By default, Overwriting is turned off, which means text to the right of the insertion point
will be moved to the right.
Deleting text in a document
If you highlight part of your document and then start typing, the highlighted portion will
be deleted and the new text will appear in its place; it doesn’t matter whether you have
hard returns, images, tables, or text highlighted, the results will be the same.
TIP: In the event you accidentally delete part of your document, you can use
the Undo feature (ctrl+z) to undo up to 100 changes you have made to your document.
To delete portions of your document: Highlight the portion you would like to delete and
press the delete key.
To delete individual elements of your document, you have two options:
• The delete key will delete objects to the right of the insertion point
• While the backspace key will delete objects to the left of the insertion point.
