Highlighting an entire page (or more) in one step.

[Highlighter]

Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to highlight
an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am aware
of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the mouse
down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer contents
or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to recall
in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first letter
or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly to
the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the
text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am
using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique (or
a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you.

 

[Sninkle]

Holding Shift and the down arrow key will allows you to select line by line

 

[Greg Maxey]

Click at the start. Hold the shift key and click at the end.

Ctr+a selects the current story range.

AFAIK, there is no direct shortcut to select all of the text on the current
page. You could use a macro something like this:

Sub SelectWholePage()
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\Page").Range.Select
End Sub

 

[grammatim]

For something longer, click at the start, use the scroll bar to make
the endpoint visible (even many pages away), and Shift-Click at the
endpoint. (Warning: there's an option that causes the cursor to move
when you scroll to a new view. Be sure that's not checked.)

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times
to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section.

 

[Jay Freedman]

It's even more flexible than that. Press F8 once to turn on extended
selection mode (or double-click the letters EXT in the status bar in Word
2003 or earlier). Then you can do any of these:

- Use the scroll bar or the mouse wheel to bring the end of the desired
selection into view and left-click there. If you aren't happy with the
selected spot, click again somewhere else. You can also use the arrow and
Page Up/Down keys. Press the Esc key to get out of extended mode.

- Type any character. The end of the selection will jump to the next
occurrence of that character. Press it again, multiple times, until you get
to the desired occurrence, then press Esc.

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[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

I think you must be thinking of WordPerfect.

Word does have an extend feature (see EXT in the status bar), but since you
have to use the mouse or press a cumbersome two or three key shortcut to
invoke it and because Word does not allow users to navigate to the top or
bottom of a page, using EXT would not be the two key process you remember.

PamC

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Ooh - nice trick.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

 

[Highlighter]

Than you for your reply. No, it is indeed Microsoft Word, and a few people
have kindly reminded me of variations in the old technique. "Highlighter"

 

[Highlighter]

Thank you for your kind reply. That was pretty much it, as I recall, except
that I also can scroll down with the mouse and click the end point.
"Highlighter".

 

[Highlighter]

Thank you very much for your kind reply. Sounds good and vaguely familiar.
Been a while since I needed this convenience, hence my lack of recollection.
"Highlighter"

 

[Highlighter]

Thank you for your kind and prompt reply. Sounds familiar and as simple as I
want. Been a long while since I needed this convenience. "Highlighter"

 

[Highlighter]

Thank you for your kind reply. Technique is a bit more complicated than I
remember. Other replies were the more familiar hold shift from start point to
end point, click at the endpoint and go from there. Been a while since I
needed the convenience of that move. I appreciate your help. "Highlighter"

Hit F8 twice to select a word, three times to select a sentence, four times
to select a paragraph, and five times to select a section.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Not having used the technique for a while, I have forgotten how to
highlight
an entire page of material (or more) for transfer, deletion, etc. I am
aware
of the technique of simply highlighting the first line and moving the
mouse
down to include all chosen material. However, especially for longer
contents
or multiple pages, this is not the most effective technique. I seem to
recall
in much older versions of WORD, a quicker technique whereby the first
letter
or word of the exerpt was somehow highlighted and one proceeded promptly
to
the end of the exerpt and hit some key thereby marking the borders of the
text to be highlighted for whatever purpose. Sound familiar at all? I am
using WORD that came with Windows XP Professional 2002. Is the technique
(or
a similar one) present there? Please advise in detail. Thank you.

 

[Highlighter]

Thank you for your kind reply. If you have seen the other posts, the simple
one that I needed was to left click the start point with the mouse, holding
down "Shift", go to the end of the selection (scroll bar, mouse wheel or
down-arrow) and left click the mouse again. I did record your answer as a
viable alternative, but I wonder if the cut/paste options would work as well
as the type-any-character option that you suggested, as a shorter step to
move the selected material to the desired site rather than jumping about
some. I appreciate your help. "Highlighter"

 

[grammatim]

Note that you only need to hold down Shift if you're dragging from
starting point to ending point -- if you navigate with the scroll bars/
mouse wheel, you don't need to Shift until you're ready to click on
the endpoint.