Working with selections > Selecting text and objects

To select something via the mouse, proceed as follows:

▪Selecting text

To select a section of text of any length, position the mouse cursor at the beginning of the section, press and hold down the left mouse button, and drag the cursor to the end of the desired section.

To select a word, double-click on the word.

To select a whole line, click in the left margin of that line. You can select multiple lines by dragging the mouse cursor up or down beside them in the left margin.

To select a whole paragraph, double-click in the left margin beside the paragraph. Also possible: make a triple click directly into the paragraph.

To select the whole document, press and hold the Ctrl key and click in the left margin (beside any paragraph of the document).

Alternatively, you can do the same with the ribbon command Home | Select all

▪Selecting objects

To select an object (for example, a picture, a drawing, etc.), simply click on it with the mouse. A frame will then appear around the object to indicate that it is now selected.

To select multiple objects, switch to object mode (see Object mode).

Selecting via the keyboard

Alternatively, you can use the keyboard. To do so, proceed as follows:

▪Selecting text

Move the text cursor to the beginning of the text you want to select. Press the Shift keyñ, hold it down, and then move the text cursor in any direction with the arrow keys.

For example, you can select the following:

a single character with Shift+ß or Shift+à

a single word with Ctrl+Shift+ß or Ctrl+Shift+à

whole pages with Shift+PageUpá or Shift+PageDownâ

To select the whole document, you can press the key combination Ctrl+Home, followed by the key combination Ctrl+Shift+End.

Alternatively, you can do the same with the ribbon command Home | Select all

▪Selecting objects

Objects can only be selected with the mouse (see above).

Selecting non-contiguous text sections

You can also select non-contiguous text parts with Write (multiple selections of text). To do this, select a word, line, paragraph, or any section of text in your document using the methods described above.

Then, while holding down the Ctrl key, you can select another text element elsewhere in the document with the mouse.

If, for example, you want to select several words that are distributed non-contiguously in the text, proceed as follows:

1.	Select the first word you need – by double-clicking it with the mouse, for example.

2.	Press and hold down the Ctrl key.

3.	Select the next needed word that is in a different place in the text – by a single click with the mouse.

In this way, add more words (or text segments) to the selection as required.

All the words you clicked are now selected across the board. You can format this selection as a unit, copy it, etc. If you want to remove a word from the selection again, a single mouse click on this word will do that.