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.