Chapter 3. Typing and Editing Text

In this chapter

Text Entry and Editing Basics 60

Moving Around in a Document 67

Selecting Text and Other Objects 70

Moving and Copying Text and Objects 72

Locating Specific Content 79

Inserting Dummy Text 89

Working with Building Blocks 90

Troubleshooting 93

Text Entry and Editing Basics

A blank document starts out with a flashing insertion point, which looks like a small vertical bar. In addition, if you’re working in Draft or Outline view, a horizontal bar (not flashing) appears as an end-of-file marker (see Figure 3.1). Initially the two markers are together because there’s nothing in the file, but the end-of-file marker moves further down on the page as you add more text to your document.

Figure 3.1. The ...

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