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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Select Text Using Arrow Keys
« on: January 03, 2006, 09:18 PM »
Hi guys.
Try this.
Select some text by clicking the mouse in the middle of a word then drag to the right. When your selection gets to the second letter of the next word Windows will automatically select the whole of the first 2 words. So this "assistance" is of no benefit if you wish to select only the first word, because you must tediously select exactly from the first letter to the last letter of that word.
But, you can double click a word & select that whole word, but this method also selects the space following that word. Maybe the best method would have been 2 clicks for a word, 3 to include the following period, 4 for a sentence, 5 for a paragraph, 6 for everything?
Anyway I was thinking maybe text could be selected by holding shift & using the left & right arrow keys to select the beginning of the text & selecting the end of the text by holding the control key?
Maybe someone has a better suggestion than me?
Try this.
Select some text by clicking the mouse in the middle of a word then drag to the right. When your selection gets to the second letter of the next word Windows will automatically select the whole of the first 2 words. So this "assistance" is of no benefit if you wish to select only the first word, because you must tediously select exactly from the first letter to the last letter of that word.
But, you can double click a word & select that whole word, but this method also selects the space following that word. Maybe the best method would have been 2 clicks for a word, 3 to include the following period, 4 for a sentence, 5 for a paragraph, 6 for everything?
Anyway I was thinking maybe text could be selected by holding shift & using the left & right arrow keys to select the beginning of the text & selecting the end of the text by holding the control key?
Maybe someone has a better suggestion than me?