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Editing Text

Whether you’re creating a business letter, a financial report, or your master’s thesis, it’s a sure bet that you’re going to need to go back into your document and do some editing. Word provides a great variety of ways to edit. To edit existing content, you simply select it and make your changes, or, if you prefer, you can type over some existing text to replace it.

Select and Modify Text

1. Click at the beginning of the text you want to delete.

2. Drag the mouse over all the text to select it, and then release the mouse button.

3. Press the Delete ...