Selecting Text

Before you can do anything to text in a note—copy it, move it, or reformat it—you have to select it. OneNote offers a handful of techniques for selecting text (you can tell when text is selected because OneNote highlights it):

To select

Do this

A word

Double-click the word

Some text

Drag across the text

To the beginning of a line

Press Shift+Home

To the end of a line

Press Shift+End

A paragraph

Triple-click the paragraph or press Shift+Down Arrow with the cursor at the start of the paragraph

Current paragraph and subordinate paragraphs (if any)

Click the line’s outline handle or press Ctrl+Shift+-

Select Text

  1. Double-click a word in a note to select it.

  2. Drag across some text to select it.

  3. Triple-click a paragraph to select it.

  4. Click a paragraph’s outline ...

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