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ending point of the passage is visible. Shift-click there.

Windows instantly highlights everything between your click
and your Shift-click.

These clicking tricks are all great, but what if even the act of
reaching for your mouse is thwarting your editing mojo? Learn

these techniques and never look back:

To select one character at a time, hold down Shift and then
use the left and right arrow keys ( and ) to move through

your text. You can grab even larger chunks by mixing in the
and keys or adding Shift at any time (read on).

To move through your text one word at a time, press Ctrl+
or Ctrl+ . Add the Shift key if you want to highlight text
as you go.

To move through your text one paragraph at a time, press
Ctrl+ or Ctrl+ . Again, add Shift to highlight entire
paragraphs in neat chunks.

To select one line at a time, use Shift+ and Shift+ . To
move the insertion point to the beginning or end of the current
line, press the Home or End keys.

To move from your insertion point to the beginning or end of
some text, press Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End—and, yes, add Shift
to select the entire block in one neat keystroke. This works

even if the spot you’re aiming for is 100 pages away.

Bulleted lists. You’re reading a bulleted list right now. To apply
bullets to a bunch of paragraphs, click the Bullets button ( ). If
you click the next to it, you can create a numbered or lettered list

instead.

Insert object. This button lets you create or slap in a picture,

graph, chart, sound, movie, spreadsheet, or other kind of data. (The