Voila! You’ve highlighted either the word or the paragraph in one fell swoop. Simply double-click on the word (to highlight a word) – anywhere in the word – OR – triple-click (yes, TRIPLE click) in a paragraph to highlight an entire paragraph. It can be particularly tedious for people with a touch-pad mouse which is either overly sensitive or too ‘dull’.Īnyway, here’s the trick (I know, I know…get to the point already!! I just wanted to make sure that everyone knew what I meant by highlighting text). That’s all fine and dandy, but it requires some manual dexterity to do it accurately. Hold the left-click button down and drag to the end of the area to be highlighted: I can click the ‘B’ button on my toolbar to ‘bold’ the word, etc. Well typically, I click to the space immediately to the left of the word(s) that I want to highlight, and then I hold down the left-click button on my mouse, and drag the cursor across the word to highlight it, ending by releasing the button. If you want to do any of these things, you start by highlighting the word (or paragraph). Maybe you want to copy a word or paragraph and paste it somewhere else. For those of you who might not know, you might do this in order to delete a word, make a word bold, or make a word italicized, etc. Most of us know that we can left-click and drag our mouse across a word (or paragraph) to highlight it. This week, I ran across two keyboard shortcuts that I’d forgotten about that are really useful. People seemed to enjoy picking up one or two new useful tricks, so I thought I’d pass along a couple of more. Somehow, the number of hours in a day are simply not stretching to cover the amount of work on my desk!! □Ī few weeks back, I did a post on Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts. I appreciate that you've pointed this out to me, but I need a better understanding as to how this works.This is just going to be short and sweet today, gang. Is it possible to change this color or to choose another default? Even choosing another default wouldn't necessarily work for me as I often use multiple highlight colors in a document. This makes me think that the pale yellow highlight isn't the same as a regular highlight. The yellow remains and small bands on the top & bottom of the yellow highlight show the color that I've chosen to change (pink). If I try to change the highlight from the pale yellow, it appears the color is changed behind the yellow. Yet in the Format panel, choosing Style, the little dropdown w/the gear (next to bold, italics, underline), shows that there isn't a highlight color. How do you modify the color? When I tried to use it, the highlight defaulted to a very pale yellow color. But, I'm confused as to how this shortcut or Insert>Highlight works. Sorry, I didn't see this before, although apparently others missed it as well.
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