1. Working With Text

2. Deleting / Selecting Text
Deleting text
You can delete text as you type by pressing the Backspace. This deletes the
character immediately to the left of the blinking insertion point. You can also delete
text by selecting it (see next section) and pressing Backspace.
Selecting text
To select any amount of text, drag the mouse pointer over it and press the mouse
button down while you move the mouse
•To select a whole word, double-click the word.
•To select a whole paragraph, triple-click the paragraph.
•To select a whole line, click in the selection bar to the left of the line
•To select a whole document, hold the ctrl button down and tap “A”

3. The Clipboard
is the place where information is temporarily stored when you are cutting or copying it.
The clipboard is usually invisible, working
behind the scenes. If you copy or cut and
then paste – the most recent item that you
put on the clipboard will be the one that
gets pasted.
To copy, select the text or object and press CTRL+C or right click and choose “copy”.
To paste press CTRL+V, or right click to display the context menu and choose “paste”.
If you want more control over how something is pasted from the Clipboard, use the
Paste Special command in the clipboard group on the home tab.

4. Move Text – Drag and Drop
In a short document the easiest way to move text is dragging and
dropping.
•First highlight the text you want to move.
•Position the mouse over the selected text.
•Hold down your left mouse button (or keep your stylus on the
screen) and drag the selected text to a new location
•Release the mouse button (or lift your stylus).
Note: If you use you’re your right mouse button (or hold the button in on your
stylus) as you drag, a context menu will appear when you release the mouse
button. This will offer the option to copy or to move your text.
Context menu

5. Find
You can use the Find Feature to locate a word or a phrase in your document
In the Editing Group on the Home tab choose Find
Type the text you want to find, by clicking FIND NEXT. Word will find the text even if
the text is part of another word. For example, if you search for “place”, Word will also
find “places”, “someplace”, “commonplace”, etc.
Word highlights the first matching word – click “next” to find the next match. When
Word has found the last match, a dialog box appears telling you that Word has
finished searching.

6. Replace Text
To just replace a section of existing text with something else, select the text you
want to replace. Then type the new text. The new text replaces the old text.
To search through a document to replace all instances of a word or phrase, choose
Replace or click the replace tab on the same dialog box that appeared when you
clicked on FIND. Enter the text you want to replace in the Find what box, then enter
the text you want to replace it with in the Replace with box. Click the Find Next
button to find the first occurrence, then use the Replace button to replace the found
occurrence or the Find Next button to skip that occurrence and move onto the next
one. If you're really confident about the change, you can use the Replace All button
to replace all occurrences at once.
The replace feature is great if you
have a long word or phrase that you
have to type many times in a
document, such as The Buffalo
Seminary. You can type a short
form of the word (Sem) throughout
your document then have Word
replace the short form with the full
word or phrase.