Block of Text. F8 key to Select block of text. Microsoft Office Word 2021 beginners tutorials.

 Block of Text

Using the (F8) key to select a block of text:

1. The F8 key activates Word’s Extend Selection command. Press this key to “drop anchor” at the insertion pointer's location. Then use either the mouse or the cursor keys to select text. In fact, you cannot do anything but select text when Extend Selection mode is active.
2. To exit Extend Selection mode, you can either do something with the block of text or press the Esc key to cancel

ü To help you with the F8 key and Extend Selection mode, right click the status bar and choose the Selection Mode item. The text Extend Selection appears on the status bar when this mode is active

• Not only can you use the cursor keys while in Extend Selection mode, any of the character keys works as well; text is selected from the anchor point to the character you type. Type an A, for example, and all text between the insertion pointer and the next letter A is selected

•  Press the F8 key twice to select the current word. 

• Press the F8 key thrice (three times) to select the current sentence. 

• Press the F8 key four times to select the current paragraph as a block of text.

• Press the F8 key five times to select the entire document, from top to bottom.

• No matter how many times you press F8, be aware that it always drops anchor. Whether you press F8 once or five times, Word is still in Extend Selection mode. Do something with the block or press Esc to cancel this mode.

Microsoft Office Word 2021 beginners tutorials. Selecting or marking a block of text using keyboard

Block Of Text

1. A block of text in Word includes text and text formatting.
2. Graphics and other nontext elements can also be selected as a block. In fact, you can select graphics along with text in the same block.
3. When the status bar is displaying word-count statistics, the number of words selected in the block of text is displayed next to the total number of words in the document. 

Selecting or marking a block of text using keyboard

Microsoft Office 2021 beginners tutorials. Shortcut key (Shift + F5).

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Move the Insertion Pointer

The four arrow keys move the insertion pointers up, down, rights and left.

• Moving the cursor doesn’t erase characters.
• If you press and hold down the Ctrl (Control) key and then press an arrow key, the insertion pointer moves in larger increments.

Moving from beginning to end

End	To the end of a line of text
Home	To the start of a line of text
Ctrl + End	To the end of the document
Ctrl + Home	To the top of the document

PgUp	Up one window full of text or to the top of the document if you are near there
PgDn	Down one window full of text or to the end of the document if you are near there
Ctrl + Alt + PgUp	To the top of the current windows text
Ctrl + Alt + PgDn	To the bottom of the current windows text

Return to the Previous Edit

Use, Shift + F5

• Pressing the, Shift + F5, keyboard shortcut forces Word to return you to the last spot you edited.

(Go to wherever with)Go To Command

• For example, to go three pages forward, type +3. To go 10 pages backward. Type -12 in the Page Number box.