In this video, learn how to use a keyboard/mouse technique to select arbitrary content in a Word document, such as text on the right side of a document and not the left, to then apply formatting to the selected content.
- [Instructor] In this week's Word tip,…I'd like to show you a little trick…that could potentially save you a lot of time…when it comes to selecting arbitrary content…in your Word documents.…I'm gonna work with this file,…if you have the exercise files,…open up LM_Estimate_070, and you'll have what I have,…but you can work with your own documents as well.…As you can see here, we have some items,…descriptions, and prices, looks like columns,…but they're not, they're just tabs in between.…You can see a left aligned tab, a decimal tab,…so if I wanted to, for example, bold the top line here,…we already know we can click and drag across content,…and when we go horizontally, we can even move…down to select full lines of content if we wanted to.…
Another trick, just click anywhere…in the background here, is to go into…the left margin and click once,…that'll select an entire line.…And if we wanted to bold it, there's a pop up menu,…you could use Ctrl + B, or go up to the ribbon…if you prefer, that's easily done,…and there are tricks for selecting content…
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6/24/2019Released
4/3/2017Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome48s
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1. Word Tips Weekly
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Work with sections10m 34s
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Use page breaks effectively8m 28s
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Control content with margins9m 53s
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Convert text to a table8m 29s
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Use tables to align content8m 24s
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Save time with AutoText5m 41s
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Start Word in safe mode2m 21s
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Create hyperlinks quickly2m 51s
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Work with hidden text5m 9s
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Add and edit citations5m 50s
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Customize Track Changes5m 12s
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Take control of white space2m 36s
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Draw a table from scratch13m 10s
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Create return address labels5m 40s
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Correct images in a document6m 26s
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Select arbitrary text2m 29s
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Get fancy with drop caps3m 37s
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Strip formatting from text2m 15s
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Create your own fractions2m 33s
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