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This next chapter is going to be all about working with text in your WordPerfect documents.
What I mean by that is selecting text and changing it to something else,
formatting text. We'll look at ways to find and even replace text in a document.
There is Undo and Redo, moving and copying text as well as Reveal Codes.
We will look at all of that in this chapter but before we get to any of that we have to
learn how to select text. Typically if you don't want to make a change
to the entire document, you have to select the portion
of the document you want to make the change to.
For example if you wanted to reformat a title you need to know how to select that title
first. So that's what we are going to do right now
using this newsletter in front of me. It's called the Newsletter1.wpd.
You will find it in the Lesson3 folder of the exercise files, if you have got them.
Open that up and you can follow along with me.
So let's say right up here in our title where it says Southpointe News,
it really should say something different like maybe Westpointe News.
Well in that case we would just want to select Southpointe and type right over it, we can
do that. By clicking and dragging with our mouse from
the left to the right we can highlight the entire word, just like so.
Clicking anywhere in the document deselects any selected text.
Can we go backwards? You bet. From the e to the s, you could do
it that way if you wanted to. There is another shortcut though. I'm going
to deselect again and just double-click in the word Southpointe
and that selects the entire word and the space after it.
So now I can type in Westpointe like so and leave a space, Westpointe News.
Just like that. Very simple to do.
Now what if you want to select an entire sentence? Well we could go down here to Roadway Construction
Under Way for example and click and drag from the r to the y in Way.
But if you shift ever so slightly up or down, you know how confusing that can look or be.
So there is another way to select an entire sentence. Couple of other ways actually.
We could triple-click anywhere in the sentence itself.
There it is. It's all selected for us, nice and neat.
But even faster than that, let's deselect, is to go into the left hand margin and when
your mouse pointer changes from that I-beam into an arrow, it means you are ready to start
selecting. So I could go right next to Roadway and click
once. Boom, there it is. It's all selected and ready
to be formatted perhaps. If I go over here next to Drive Time and click
once, just that first sentence is selected. If I want the entire paragraph, well I could
go inside paragraph. We know triple-clicking select an entire sentence.
Four clicks in a row quickly, selects the entire paragraph.
So it's even faster to go in the left margin and just double click to select an entire
paragraph. You want multiple paragraphs? Over here click
and drag. You can see as I drag down I'm selecting sentences
at a time, entire paragraphs and when I have got what I want selected,
I let go of my mouse and I'm ready to do some changes like formatting this text perhaps.
We will do that in the next lesson. Now what if you want to select all of the
text, the entire document? Well in a hundred page document it would take
a while to click and drag down the left margin. So there are some other ways to select text
in a WordPerfect document. Let's click anywhere here in this paragraph,
Drive Time Here and we'll go up to the Edit menu
and you will notice just past half way down is word Select.
Here we can select sections if you have broken your document up into sections.
We have got Sentences, Paragraph, Page or All and look at the keyboard shortcut for
that. Ctrl+A as in all will select everything in
your document. So let's try that.
Give it a click and as I scroll down it's only a two pager but both pages are selected.
Excellent. If I just wanted a single page selected, I click anywhere on the page,
in this case page 1, Edit, Select and Page. Now as I scroll down to the second page you
will notice that nothing here is selected, perfect.
All of these techniques will come in handy in upcoming lessons as we start formatting
our documents. All right. So now that you got that under
your belt, you are ready to start selecting text
to make changes to that text such as formatting. That's exactly what we are going to do in
the next lesson.