How to highlight all text in Word

To do some action with the text, say, change the font used for writing, you need to select the text. The allocation of small pieces does not cause difficulties even for novice users, because in Windows, most operations can be done with the mouse. But when you need to highlight all the text in a large multi-page document, using the mouse can be very inconvenient. You are unlikely to successfully hold the left button while you scroll the wheel and move the mouse horizontally (the end of the document rarely appears at the beginning of the line).

Hotkeys

Hotkeys are universal. To select everything in Word 2007, you need to use the same combinations that will work in other versions. When you know at least the most frequently used combinations, the work is greatly accelerated. To make a selection of the entire document, just press CTRL + A or CTRL and 5 on the numeric keypad. But how to select all the text on several pages, but not in the entire document?

The combination with the SHIFT key will help you. You can do this: press the key and then use the mouse to mark the place where the selection starts. Without releasing SHIFT, scroll the wheel and place the cursor at the point where the selection should end. Release the key.

SHIFT works in conjunction with the navigation keys. Leaving it pressed, you can select the desired segment up to one letter. When selected with the mouse, the system automatically tends to move the "black" area to the edge of the extreme word, and this is not always necessary. Just hold SHIFT while pressing the arrows, and the selection will increase by exactly one character with each press of the index key.

Not everyone knows how to select all the text correctly with the F8 key. It includes a special selection mode, but if you do not press ESC at the end, if you replace one character in the middle of the document, its neighbor on the right will disappear. For example, you need to correct the word "IEXT" to the correct version. If you erase the first letter and write "t" instead, in the mode of pressing F8 you will get "text".

F8 just need to press, do not need to hold. After that, you can click on the selection borders or navigate through the text using the navigation keys. When you select the second option, press F8 after placing the cursor at the beginning of the selection.

Special Features

In the Word you will find some interesting ways how to highlight the entire text. If the entire document has the same formatting (by font size and type), select at least one word and right-click to open the context menu. The item "Selecting text having the same format" becomes available in it. In this case the whole text.

With the ALT key held down, you can select all that is within the rectangle. The user points the opposite corners of the rectangle with the mouse.

Selection from the menu

Finally, I'll show you how to select all the text from the menu. In Word 2007 and 2010 on the main tab, you need to open the "Edit" item. The right team is there. In the Vord of the early versions of "Select All" is in the "Edit" menu.