Method one. By which we can immediately determine that we are facing a newcomer
Just go through it with the mouse and you get the selected text. This is exactly what most novice users do. The method is simple, but only for small fragments.
Method two How to select all text
The previous method is good if we have a small text, but if we need to select several pages at once, it is better to use other techniques. For example, using the Select command on the Ribbon. How to select all text in Word? We follow the algorithm:
- On the Home tab we find the Editing panel;
- Expanding the list of the Select command
- Select Select all:
Method three: How to select all text.
To quickly select all the information in a Word document, just click 3 times on the right margin of the document. Be careful, clicks are made on the field, and not on the text. Move the mouse to the right until the cursor turns into a white arrow. The first click will select a line, the second will select a paragraph, and the third click will select the entire document.
Method four. We use the keyboard.
We use so-called hot keys.
We add the A key to Ctrl (on the Russian keyboard this is the key with the letter F) - all the text is highlighted.
By the way, an advanced user can be seen precisely by the ability to perform most operations using the keyboard. Do you already know how to quickly copy a selected fragment, paste it to a new location, undo actions, change formats (make bold, italic, underlined)? If not, you still have a lot of unknown possibilities that are worth exploring.
Method five. Another option with hotkeys
This option is offered to us by tooltips. Those who have already tried to select all the text using commands on the ribbon should have noticed the following entry:
Let's try to use it. Type the combination Ctrl+Num+5. And again we get the selection of all the text.
Select a large area of text using the keyboard, but stop at the right place
Place the cursor on the first line. Hold down the Ctrl key without releasing it and add Scift. Now press the cursor key ↓. The cursor begins to move over the text, highlighting it at the same time. We go this way until the end of the document or until the end of the fragment that needs to be marked - we get a selection.
We think that now you won’t have the problem of how to select all the text in Word, and after reading the article you are thinking about how to continue improving your skills.
Sometimes you need to highlight text or a fragment of it in Word. The easiest way is with the mouse, but this is old and no longer interesting. Because it takes a lot of time, and why bother, it’s long and tedious, you need to waste it. What if your hand suddenly trembles? Then you'll have to start over.
That's why smart people the interaction of the Ctrl key with others was invented (we will return to this later). In this case, if we talk about selecting text, there is a “golden combination” that provides the ability to instantly select – Ctrl+A. By pressing both at the same time, you are guaranteed to select all the text, as you can see absolutely everything, even with side lines and a picture:
By holding the Ctrl and Shift keys simultaneously, you can select a piece of text anywhere with the mouse. This combination allows, for example, to select one word or one line (as can be seen in the screenshot) with the mouse without releasing these keys.
Other tips: If you want to "highlight" a word, double-click on it to highlight the line - move the cursor to the left so it becomes an arrow pointing to the right, and then click. If you want to select a paragraph, then you will have to triple-click on it. But if we are talking about several paragraphs, then you should drag the cursor to the left edge of the first of the selected paragraphs so that it also becomes an arrow (to the right), and then, while holding down the left mouse button, move the arrow either up or down.
Shift + Left Arrow, Shift + Right Arrow, Shift + Up Arrow, Shift + Down Arrow - this is the combination that ensures the selection of text line by line and each letter in specified directions (left, right, up and down). They should also be pressed simultaneously, placing the cursor at the beginning of the line:
The combination Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow allows you to highlight a specific word in the text, and more than one. This also happens when you simultaneously press Ctrl and Shift, and then the left and right arrows.
Now, as promised, let's talk about one more hotkey in combination with Ctrl. One of the most useful is Ctrl+P, which allows you to print the file you select. It is also possible to select the number of copies, the printer you need and much more, as shown in the following screenshot.
Most often, when working with a text document, the user often has to select all the text, move it to another document, or delete it altogether. But sometimes, an incident happens when you need to select the entire text, but you can’t remember in what way and what keys you need to press. So let's look at two quick ways, which will be relevant not only for Word 2007 and 2010, but also for newer versions like 2013 and 2016.
Select using a keyboard shortcut
Switch the input method to the English layout using the “Shift+Alt” key combination.
Using the key combination “Ctrl+A” all sheets with information on them will be selected.
How to highlight text via the main menu
The main menu will help you select the entire document in Word. Open the “Home” tab and click on the “Select” button in the “Editing” area. From the drop-down menu, click "Select All".
Thus, if you need to select all the text at once, you only need to perform three steps.
In Word 2003, the “Edit” tab and the “Select all” line will help you quickly mark all the text at once.
Selecting text in Word is a fairly common task, and it may be needed for many reasons - cut or copy a fragment, move it to another location, or even to another program. If we are talking directly about selecting a small fragment of text, this can be done using the mouse, just click at the beginning of this fragment and drag the cursor to its end, after which you can change it, cut it, copy it or replace it by pasting something in its place something else.
But what to do when you need to select absolutely all the text in Word? If you're working with a fairly large document, you probably won't want to manually select all of its contents. In fact, it is very simple to do this, and in several ways.
Use hot key combinations, this significantly simplifies interaction with any programs, not just Microsoft products. To select all the text at once in Word, just click "Ctrl+A", if you want to copy it, click "Ctrl+C", cut - "Ctrl+X", insert something instead of this text - "Ctrl+V", cancel action "Ctrl+Z".
But what if the keyboard or one of the much-needed buttons does not work?
Method two is just as simple.
Find in the tab "Home" on the toolbar Microsoft Word paragraph "Select"(it is located on the right at the very end of the navigation ribbon, there is an arrow next to it, similar to that of the mouse cursor). Click on the triangle next to this item and select from the drop-down menu "Select All".
The entire contents of the document will be selected and then you can do whatever you want with it: copy, cut, replace, format, change size and font, etc.
Method three - for the lazy
Place the mouse cursor on the left side of the document at the same level as its title or the first line of text if it does not have a title. The cursor should change its direction: previously it pointed to the left, now it will point to the right. Click on this place three times (yes, exactly 3) - all the text will be highlighted.
How to highlight individual text fragments?
Sometimes there is a tact; in a large text document, for one purpose or another, it is necessary to highlight individual fragments of text, and not all of its contents. At first glance, this may seem quite complicated, but in reality everything is done in a few button presses and mouse clicks.
Select the first piece of text that you need, and select all subsequent ones while holding down the key "Ctrl".
Important: When highlighting text that contains tables, bulleted lists, or numbered lists, you may notice that these elements are not highlighted, but that's just how it looks. In fact, if copied text containing one of these elements, or even all of them at once, is pasted into another program or in another place in a text document, markers, numbers or a table will be inserted along with the text itself. The same applies to graphic files, however, they will only be displayed in compatible programs.
That's all, now you know how to select everything in Word, be it regular text or text containing additional elements, which can be list components (bullets and numbers) or graphic elements. We hope this article was useful to you and will help you work faster and better with Microsoft Word text documents.
Most users traditionally use the mouse to select text, holding down the left button and dragging the selection to the right place. But those who have at least once typed or worked with multi-page text documents are well aware of the biggest drawback of this method. When selecting large areas or entire text, selecting it with the mouse takes a significant amount of time. It is at such moments that the question arises as to whether there is a way to select all the text in a document at once.
There really is such a method, not just one, but two. Each user can choose from them the one that is most convenient for him when working with text documents.
Selection via text editor menu
The usage of this method may vary depending on the type of text editor you are using. It would be inappropriate to describe all programs within the scope of this article. Therefore, we will limit ourselves to an example based on the popular text editor Microsoft Word and say that in all others, selection will be made in a similar way. Only the names of individual menu items may differ.
To select all text in Word before version 2007, go to the section in the main menu "Edit" and select the item in the list that appears "Select All".
Starting with MS Word 2007 with a significantly changed Fluent interface, to select, you must, being on the main tab, click the edit button and select the item in the list that appears "Select" and in the next menu item "Select All".
As a result of this operation, all text in the document will be selected and ready for further operations, such as copying and pasting.
Select using the keyboard
Among advanced computer users, there is an opinion that the more and better you master various programs, the more operations you begin to perform using the keyboard. Indeed, many operations that can be performed from the keyboard using so-called “hot keys” are performed much more conveniently and quickly.
Use a keyboard shortcut to select all text Ctrl+A, in which a key is first pressed and held Ctrl and then A(English), after which both keys are released. For fun, compare the speed of selecting all text using this method with the previous one. The difference will be obvious.
