Selecting text:

We can select text in different ways, using both the mouse and the keyboard.

The most common way is with the mouse.

Click at the beginning of the text that you want to select.

Click the mouse button and drag it over the text you want to select.

To deselect, click anywhere in the selected document.
To select only a word, double click the word, with the mouse.

To select an entire paragraph, triple click a word with the mouse.

 

You can also use your mouse in combination with your keyboard, in order to select text.

Just click at the beginning of the text that you want to select, keep the Shift key on your keyboard pressed and click on the place, where you want to end the selection.

The “click – shift click” method works in all applications from Microsoft and is used to select contiguous data.

 

To select non-adjacent data, use the “click – Ctrl click” method.

For example, select the first word, keep the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed, and then select the next word or phrase.

 

We can use the Ctrl key, to select a sentence.

Press the Ctrl key and click a word in the sentence.

 

Another way to select text, is by placing the pointer of your mouse in the left margin, so that it changes into a white arrow.

Click the mouse once to select 1 line.

Click and drag the mouse to select various lines.

Double-clicking in the left margin will select the entire paragraph.

Triple-clicking the mouse will select all text.

To select everything in your document, you can use the shortcut “Ctrl +A” buttons on your keyboard.

 

Document Views

In Word 2010, we have different display options, we can work with.

The various display options are found under the “View” tab at the top of the ribbon,

and at the bottom of the application window to the right on the status bar.

By default, the “Print Layout” is set.

The “Print preview” shows us the margins, headers and footers and all formatting options that were used in our document.

 

Under the “View” tab, we have the “Zoom” section.

By default, the document is displayed with a 100% zoom level.
You can see this in the Zoom slider at the bottom.

In the “View” tab, we have the option of viewing one or two pages in our document.

This makes it easy to see how our document moves from one sheet to another.

The “Page width” displays the document using the width of the entire screen .

 

To return to the 100% view, click the 100% button.

 

The “Web” Layout displays how your document would look when you publish it on the Internet.

The “Outline” layout displays the page breaks.

It does not display any margins, headers and footers.

 

The “Outline” layout displays an overview of the formatted document.

When you click the “Outline” layout, an extra tab, “Overview”, is opened:

The “Outline” layout allows us to expand certain information in our document or work in different areas of our document, so that our work is made easy.

You can expand these areas by clicking on the plus and minus buttons in the ribbon, or double-clicking in the document.

In order to close the “Outline” layout, click the “Close Outline View” button, in the ribbon.

 

The last layout, which is “Full Screen Reading”, will be discussed in the next lesson.

 

 

 

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