Hot keys on the keyboard - assignment of various combinations. How to select text using the keyboard How to select everything using the keyboard

Probably, every user on his way to the heights of computer mastery asks the questions: How can I speed up the system? How to make work more comfortable? And here numerous “registry tweaks”, tweaks, boosters and optimizers come into play. Some users, caught up in this process, even gain the very valuable experience of reinstalling a system that has been optimized to death.

But now let's leave such entertainment for a while and try to look at the problem from the other side. Completely different. For example, two people have cars (no, not Pentiums or Athlones, but the cars they drive). These two people get behind the wheel and race. And it turns out that one of them drives faster. You can, of course, say that his car is more powerful. But let's put them behind the same cars. Somebody will go faster anyway. Because he CAN drive fast. It’s the same with those machines that are computers. Someone barely presses the buttons, performing one at a time useful action in five minutes. And for some, their fingers simply flutter over the keyboard, windows on the screen change at such a speed that less experienced users do not even have time to understand what is happening.

So, we conclude: in order to increase the productivity of your communication with a computer, you need to master the means of this very communication. What means do we have? Mouse and keyboard. There are not so many buttons on the mouse, and their purpose is immediately clear. But the keyboard... A bunch of keys, usually 105 or 106, and if everything is clear with letters and numbers, then with the rest of the keys it’s not so simple. But there are also key combinations! Even an advanced user may not know some of the secrets here.
Let's say right away that any self-respecting computer scientist should master the ten-finger touch typing method. Why so categorical? Simple arithmetic: how many times a day do you have to press keys on your keyboard? We can assume that quite a lot, even if you do not type several sheets of text, but limit yourself to typing Internet addresses in your favorite browser or entering a network password. Count how much time you spend looking down at the keyboard, finding the right key, placing your finger on it and pressing it. Now imagine how much shorter this procedure will be if you don’t have to look at the keyboard and search for the right key. To train a blind ten-finger finger, it takes a week or two of daily lessons for several hours. And for the rest of your life, you will gain the ability to work with a keyboard much faster and, undoubtedly, more comfortably than before. Draw your own conclusions.

Now let's figure out WHAT you need to press, or, simply put, what key combinations there are and what you can do with them. Windows Help says: "When using Windows, use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse. Using keyboard shortcuts, you can open, close, and navigate the Start menu, the desktop, various menus and dialog boxes, and web pages. Using shortcuts keys will make it easier to interact with the computer." And this is undoubtedly the truth.

Now let's finally get down to business and start studying these very combinations. The first table shows the most commonly used ones. If you still don't use them, get them on board immediately.

Note for complete novice users: the "+" sign between the key designations means that these keys should be pressed together, and in the order in which they are indicated. So, for example, if you see the message “press CTRL+C”, this means that you first need to press the CTRL key, and then, without releasing it, press the C key and then release them in reverse order. If you press the C key first, and then CTRL, something completely different from what you intended will happen...

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Drag the mouse to highlight text in Microsoft Word requires the precision of a jeweler. I prefer to use a combination of Ctrl, Shift and arrow keys to select text, which is much faster than using the mouse.

How to highlight text using the keyboard

To select text using the keyboard, move the cursor to its original position using the arrow keys, while holding down the Shift key, press an arrow key in the direction you want to highlight. Once everything you want is selected, release the Shift key.

If you want to highlight one word, press CTRL+Shift, and then press the left or right arrow button.

If you want to select an entire line, move the cursor to the beginning of the line while holding down the Shift key, and then press the Down or Up arrow key.

If you want to select all the text by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A.

How to Select Text Using the Keyboard and Mouse

Use your keyboard and mouse to move the cursor to where you want to start the selection, hold down the Shift key, and then click where you want to end the selection.

Working with Words

Whether you're typing in a browser or writing in a word processor, there are handy keyboard shortcuts used in almost every application. You can copy, highlight, or delete entire words and paragraphs with just a few taps.

Ctrl+left arrow– moving the cursor to the beginning of the previous word.

Ctrl+right arrow– move the cursor to the beginning of the next word

Ctrl+delete– delete the next word.

Ctrl+up arrow– move the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph.

Ctrl+down arrow– move the cursor to the end of the paragraph.

Moving the cursor

The CTRL key can also be combined with the Home and End keys.

Home– move the cursor to the beginning of the current line.

End– moves the cursor to the end of the current line.

Ctrl+Home– move the cursor to the beginning of the text input field.

Ctrl+End– move the cursor at the bottom of the text entry field.

Select Text

Shift+left or right– select a symbol at the same time.

Shift+up or down arrow keys– select rows one by one.

Shift+Ctrl+left or right arrow– select words – continue to press the arrow keys to select additional words.

Shift+Ctrl+up or down arrow keys– select items.

Shift+Home– select the text between the cursor and the beginning of the current line.

Shift+End– select the text between the cursor and the end of the current line.

Shift+Ctrl+Home– select the text between the cursor and the beginning of the text entry field.

Shift+Ctrl+End– select the text between the cursor and the end of the text entry field.

Ctrl+A– select all text.

After selecting text, you can immediately start typing to replace the text - you don't have to click delete first.

Select text using the mouse key

Double-clicking a word selects the word, and triple-clicking a word selects a full line or paragraph of text.

Editing

You can really speed up text editing by using the Ctrl keyboard shortcut to copy and paste text.

Ctrl+C– copy selected text.

Ctrl+X– cut selected text.

Ctrl+V– Insert text at the cursor position.

Ctrl+Z- Cancel.

Ctrl+A– all text will be automatically selected.

Functions

These keys are common to most text editors. If you use them in your web browser, you will open the associated dialog boxes in your browser.

Ctrl+F- Find. This opens the Find dialog box in most applications to search for text.

Shift+F3– find Previous.

Ctrl+O- Open.

Ctrl+H- new document.

Ctrl+P- Seal.

Almost all operations that are usually performed with a mouse can also be performed using the keyboard. And highlighting text is no exception. The only difficulty when working with the keyboard is that you need to know some key combinations.

In this material, we will look at several simple and effective ways to select text using the keyboard, and also describe the basic key combinations that you may need.

Perhaps the easiest way to select text using the keyboard is to select by letter. In order to use this method you need first place the cursor at the point that should be the beginning or end of the selected text. To position the cursor, use the arrows on the keyboard; with their help, you can move the cursor up/down and right/left.

Once the cursor is positioned at the desired point in the text hold down the SHIFT key on your keyboard and press the left/right arrows. This way you can select text letter by letter to the right or left of the point where the cursor was placed.

In addition, you can select text and move up or down lines by pressing the up/down arrows on the keyboard without releasing the SHIFT key.

Selecting text by words

An alternative way is to highlight text in whole words at once. To use this method of selecting text you must first place the cursor at the beginning or end of the selected piece of text. After which you need hold down the SHIFT and CTRL keys and, without releasing these two keys, move through the text using the right/left arrows. With this method, each time you click on the arrow, the selection will shift to the right or left not by one character, but by an entire word at once.

If you press the up/down arrows while holding down the SHIFT and CTRL keys, you can select text in entire paragraphs at once, which is very convenient if you need to select a large block of text at once.

Selecting large chunks of text

If you need to select all the text in your document at once, then the CTRL-A key combination will help you. When pressed, all text is highlighted at once.

You can use the SHIFT-PageUp and SHIFT-PageDown key combinations to select one page of text. With their help, you can select text one page up or down.

Using the SHIFT-Home and SHIFT-End key combinations, you can select text from the cursor to the beginning/end of the current line.

And using the combinations CTRL-SHIFT-Home and CTRL-SHIFT-End you can select text from the cursor to the beginning/end of the entire document

As you can see, there are a lot of key combinations that can be used to select text using the keyboard as quickly as using the mouse.

In the last article, we looked at keyboard shortcuts for quickly and conveniently moving the cursor through text. There is a place here to talk about how to highlight any parts of text and fragments of any configuration.

What is text selection?

I think you have already noticed the general concept and logic that can be seen in the use of “hot keys” when working with text. Thanks to this, combinations and the corresponding actions are very easy to remember. If you understand the logic of moving through text using the keyboard, then mastering techniques for selecting text and its fragments will not be difficult.

So what is highlighting? Selecting text is an operation that allows you to select a certain fragment of text for further work with it - copy, cut, delete, move. The size of such a fragment is not limited in any way - it can be a selection of one character, word, line, page, or the entire document.

I assume you already know what it is. But I’ll tell you anyway. Highlighting is typically displayed as coloring the selected piece of text a different color, usually in complete contrast to the normal current color of the background and text. Since the classic color scheme is most often used - black text on a white background, when highlighting the colors are inverted - a black (or blue) background and white text.

Selecting text with the mouse

Most often, users use the mouse to select text. Selecting text with the mouse can be indispensable where you need to select non-editable text, for example on a web page.

To select text with the mouse, you need to hold down the left button and move the cursor over the piece of text you want to select. It is possible that this is the only method you use. But the fact is that this method is not the only one and is not always the most effective, especially when you are working with edited text.

Judge for yourself. Let's say this situation: you are typing or editing text, and you need to completely delete the line on which the cursor is currently located. Of course, it will be faster and more efficient to do this only using the keyboard, pressing three keys, than reaching for the mouse, aiming and selecting the desired fragment. Therefore, we will focus on such combinations.

How to select words, paragraphs, lines and arbitrary fragments of text with the mouse.

But first, it’s worth talking about mouse selection. Standard method, works almost everywhere - double and triple click the left mouse button. Double-clicking allows you to select the word on which it was made, and triple-clicking allows you to select a paragraph. True, triple-click behavior may differ in different applications. For example, in the MS Word word processor or in the Mozilla Firefox browser, triple-clicking allows you to select a paragraph of text, and in some applications this technique selects a line. One way or another, wherever you need this function, try it, and you will immediately understand how it works.

In addition, you can select the desired fragment of edited text as follows. Remember once and for all: always and everywhere, in any application, text is selected using the Shift key. Excluding various consoles and command shells. But all the techniques in them are different from standard work with text in the classic graphics applications we're looking at here.

I suggest you use the following as a traditional selection with the left mouse button pressed: place the cursor at the beginning of the fragment that you want to select, press the Shift key, and while holding it, click the mouse at the end of the desired fragment. In my opinion, this gives more precise control over the selection of a piece of text.

Selecting text with the keyboard.

And now about the most effective ways. You can select any piece of text by combining the Shift key with the arrow keys for cursor control - Left, Right, Up, Down. In this case, the combinations Shift+Left and Shift+Right highlight text character by character. Therefore, this method is only suitable for small fragments of text, part of a word, several characters. Moreover, even for highlighting part of a word, it is not always the most effective, but more on that later.

Keys for highlighting lines of text

The combinations Shift+Up and Shift+Left allow you to select text line by line, one line up and down from the cursor, respectively. It is worth noting that if the initial position of the cursor is the middle of the line, then such a combination will select a fragment from the middle of the line, starting from the place where the cursor is located, to the middle of the bottom or top line, respectively, to the place exactly above or below the cursor.

Next, let's remember the keys for moving to the beginning (Home) and end (End) of the line. Using them together with Shift will give the effect of selecting a fragment from the current cursor position to the beginning or end of the line, respectively.

Selecting a single word.

I believe you already understand the logic of text selection, so remembering the combinations of word-by-word movement through the text, you can display the corresponding word-by-word and paragraph-by-paragraph selection. Ctrl+Shift+Left (Right, up, down). But this combination is already quite complicated. The position of the fingers for him is the left little finger - left Ctrl, the left ring finger - left Shift, and the right little finger on the desired arrow key. Here, pressing ctrl and shift at the same time can be difficult. But in any case, it needs to be mastered, because it is used not only when working with text, but also in many other combinations.

Page selection

To do this, use the shift+pgUp and shift+pgDown keys to select the page up and down, respectively.

The combinations Ctrl+Shift+Home and Ctrl+Shift+Home will allow you to select the entire document from the current cursor position to the beginning or to the end.

How to select all text.

You can select all edited text at once using the Ctrl+a combination. Moreover, this combination works not only for text. Let's say you can highlight an entire web page with its help. The same combination can be used for operations with files and folders, which you can learn about in the corresponding article.

Delete selected text.

Any selected piece of text can be completely deleted using the Delete or Backspace keys, and in this case they will work the same. Selected text can be replaced by performing a paste operation, or by typing the replacement fragment on the keyboard.

Now you can effectively edit text without using a mouse at all. And if you use these methods, you will very soon notice that the speed of working with text has increased significantly.

The only thing left to learn is the copy, cut, and paste shortcuts if you don't already use them.

The Internet is a huge world where everyone will find something valuable for themselves. Some people like to watch videos on, others prefer to communicate on thematic forums, and still others use the World Wide Web as an encyclopedia. Indeed, here you can find so much valuable information that you wouldn’t be able to read in a lifetime. We save some important files to a text document. Fortunately, browsers allow you to select both entire pages and individual fragments, words or even letters. But not all PC users know how to do this. But no problem, we will help you!

Highlighting: Various Methods

• Popular browsers (Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer) do not differ at all from each other in this regard. If you need to copy some fragment of text on the site, then simply move the mouse arrow to the initial word and select the desired text. On most sites, this background around the text changes color, although on some no changes are noticeable at all - it depends on the preferences of the owners of Internet resources. By the way, on some sites the text cannot be copied - this is a kind of protection against the theft of articles, which is very easy to bypass (the text can be found through the code using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + U and further search).

• If you wanted to select all the text present on the page at once, then you don’t even need a mouse for this. Just press the key combination CTRL+A (meaning the Latin letter A). The same can be done by selecting “Edit” - “Select All” in the browser menu. But keep in mind one important point - absolutely everything will be highlighted, including various links and even pictures. However, you can always deselect it by holding down the Shift key and selecting the desired piece of text. All this fully applies to Microsoft Office Word documents.

• If you are not satisfied with highlighting everything on a page of a website or document, then we recommend doing the following. Select the text, click on the left mouse button next to the first word of the article or paragraph. Then hold down the Shift key and hold. Now find the last word in a paragraph or article, click the left mouse button next to it and only now can you release Shift. This way you have selected the fragment you need. You can see this method in more detail in the screenshot below: