Selecting Text

As you build your document, you can select text to perform various tasks, such as applying formatting, moving and copying text, or deleting text. You can select a single character, word, sentence, paragraph, or the entire document. You can use a mouse-clicking method to select text, or you can click and drag across the words you want to select.

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Image Double-click a word to select it. Word displays the mini toolbar with optional commands you can activate, if needed.

Triple-click to select a paragraph.

Click in the left margin to select ...

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