Shifty Highlighting

Shifty Highlighting

What’s the first thing you need to do to format, move or copy text?

Highlight it, of course!

Which, as we all know, is easy enough to do with the mouse, but for those of you who truly prefer the keyboard, it can be a pain.

That is, until now!

The whole secret behind highlighting with the keyboard is the Shift key.

The Shift key?

Yep, it’s all in the Shift.

Here’s a list of key combinations that address all of your highlighting needs:

• Shift + left or right arrow will highlight one letter.

• Shift + Ctrl + left or right arrow will highlight one word.

• Shift + up or down arrow will highlight one line of text.

• Shift + Ctrl + up or down arrow will highlight one paragraph at a time, starting from the cursor’s current location.

• In MS Excel: Shift + arrow will highlight one cell at a time or, if used in a combination, blocks of cells.

• Shift + Home will highlight from the cursor to the beginning of the line.

• Shift + Ctrl + Home will highlight from the cursor to the top of the document.

• Shift + End will highlight from the cursor to the end of the line.

• Shift + Ctrl + End will highlight from the cursor to the end of the document.

• Shift + Page Up or Page Down will highlight one screen.