Quick Multiple Selections (Highlight Text)

Most users know how to select individual characters, words, groups of words, and even entire lines. Here are a few tips that can help you quickly select an entire paragraph or the entire document with just a few mouse clicks.

First, to select the entire line of a paragraph, you COULD do so in various ways. For example, you could click to the left of the first letter in the line you want to select, then click and drag your cursor until you reached the end of the line.

Or, you could click to the left of the first letter in the line, move your cursor to the right of the last letter of the line, hold your Shift key down on your keyboard, and click again.

However, here's a 1-click version: Point your cursor to the left of the line, so that you get a white arrow pointing toward the line. Then, click once, and the entire line will be selected (my example doesn't show the arrow, unfortunately).


To select the entire paragraph, click twice when the arrow is pointing toward that same first line:


If you wanted to select the entire page (or document), just click 3 times while your cursor is in the same location!