Hi, My experience is that Command and Shift and the arrow keys select words, rather than Control-Shift-arrow keys. And depending on how a document is formatted, Option-Shift and Up or Down Arrow can select by paragraph.
Best, Anna On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > Dear Anouk, > > Selecting text will take a bit of getting used to. > > If you want to select an entire line of text, position yourself at the > beginning of the line by pressing control + left arrow. (Control + > right arrow will position you at the end of the line.) Then Hold down > shift and press down arrow to select a line of text and then again if > you want to select another line. > > To select a word at a time, hold down shift and option key while using > the arrow keys to select or deselect text. To select individual > characters, hold down shift key and use your right and left arrows to > select or deselect. You can check what you have selected by pressing > vo > +f6 key comination just to make sure. Then you copy with command+c > combination. > > I haven't found a reliable way selecting an entire paragraph yet. > > I am sorry but I don't know the answer to your second question. > > You are doing fantastically well. Take care, Simon > On 2 Sep 2009, at 09:20, anouk radix wrote: > >> >> Hello, can I just select text with cmd-shift down arrow and then i >> can >> copy it? I guess I will have to be careful to have my cursor at the >> beginning of a line? >> Also how can I start a new page? >> Thanks, >> Greetings, Anouk >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
